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Evaluating family therapy: a comparison of the Milan and problem solving approaches
Author(s) -
Bennun I.
Publication year - 1986
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..1986.00719.x
Subject(s) - systemic therapy , order (exchange) , outcome (game theory) , family therapy , solution focused brief therapy , medicine , psychology , psychotherapist , mathematics , psychiatry , mathematical economics , finance , cancer , breast cancer , economics
This paper describes a study comparing the Milan approach with problem solving family therapy. Twenty families were assigned to one of the treatments and data were collected assessing symptomatic (first order) and systemic (second order) changes. The results showed that families in both treatment groups achieved favourable changes in their presenting symptoms. Those families receiving the Milan approach showed a statistically significant improvement in second order changes compared with the problem solving group. Issues relating to treatment outcome, first and second order changes and methodology are presented.