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Raising the Stakes in Child‐at‐Risk Cases Eliciting and Maintaining Parents' Motivation
Author(s) -
MacKin Laurie,
James Kerrie
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1992.tb00893.x
Subject(s) - raising (metalworking) , leverage (statistics) , psychology , resistance (ecology) , project commissioning , family therapy , order (exchange) , publishing , psychotherapist , social psychology , developmental psychology , political science , finance , engineering , business , computer science , mechanical engineering , ecology , machine learning , law , biology
This paper, the third in a series concerned with family therapy in cases involving children at risk of abuse, describes an approach to maximising parents' interest and commitment to therapy. After overviewing the difficulties faced by therapists in working with parents who are notorious for their ‘resistance’, we provide guidelines for minimising the negative consequences of notification and for constructing therapeutic leverage in order to elicit and maintain parents' motivation throughout the course of therapy.