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Author(s) -
Crago Hugh
Publication year - 1995
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.1467-8438.1995.tb01024.x
Subject(s) - psychodynamics , psychological intervention , psychology , project commissioning , work (physics) , publishing , psychotherapist , psychiatry , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , law
Three thirteen year old boys presented with overlapping symptoms in the area of obsessionality, fears and compulsive behaviour. Therapy took the form of individual work with each boy, regular consultations with the mothers (and occasional consultations with fathers) and theoretically eclectic interventions tailored to the needs of each. Additionally, the boys and parents were linked into a network by a private “newsletter”. The newsletter proved to amplify the effect of progress by each client, and acted as a catalyst to the others. Newsletter material deliberately employed some psychodynamic formulations alongside systemic ones.