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Family Therapy in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practice: Integrating Family Therapy in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practice: An Ethic of Hospitality
Author(s) -
Larner Glenn
Publication year - 2003
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.1467-8438.2003.tb00563.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , mental health , hospitality , psychotherapist , psychology , narrative therapy , narrative , therapeutic relationship , project commissioning , clinical practice , guideline , medicine , publishing , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , tourism , pathology , political science , law
This article integrates family therapy in contemporary child and adolescent mental health services as an evidence‐based practice. An integrative practice model is proposed where contextual approaches like systemic and narrative therapy complement and enrich individual problem‐focused models such as biological psychiatry and cognitive therapy. This is based on an ethic of hospitality towards all therapy discourses and the following best practice guideline: ‘To make optimum space for a systemic and narrative understanding contributes to evidence‐based practice in a contemporary mental health service.’ After discussing some dilemmas of integrative practice, I illustrate the therapeutic process by a detailed example of integrative family therapy with a depressed suicidal adolescent.