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The use of a double‐blind drug trial in family therapy to demedicalize a problem
Author(s) -
Birleson Peter,
Sills John
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1046/j..1981.00544.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , double blind , drug , drug trial , pharmacotherapy , medicine , psychotherapist , clinical trial , psychology , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology , placebo
A family therapy approach to a problem that had led previous clinicians to diagnose and treat a child as ‘hyperkinetic’, is described. The resistance to change that the preceding diagnosis had inculcated, is described. A method of overcoming this resistance by active involvement of the family in a double‐blind trial of the drug treatment, was devised and used concurrently with a structural form of family therapy.