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Distant Family Treatment: A Case of School Phobia
Author(s) -
WHITE M.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1979.tb01224.x
Subject(s) - medicine , psychotherapist , psychiatry , psychology
White, M. (1979). Aust. Paediatr. J. , 15, 187–189. Distant family treatment: A case of school phobia. This paper presents a specific approach to the problem of chronic school phobia when geographical distance precludes regular ongoing psychotherapy. The approach includes a brief inpatient phase to enable certain groundwork to be undertaken and from thereon irregular outpatient contact. After reviewing and relabelling the problem a series of family tasks are established which are reinforced on a local level by the general practitioner. A case study is utilised to describe the method.