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In Defense of Child Therapy
Author(s) -
MONTALVO BRAULIO,
HALEY JAY
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1973.00227.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , intervention (counseling) , psychotherapist , psychology , identification (biology) , point (geometry) , family systems , developmental psychology , psychiatry , botany , geometry , mathematics , biology
Traditional child dyadic psychotherapy can be viewed from a family systems point of view. Seen in this light it shows itself to have powerful family systems effects. These are often therapeutically effective, although unintended. The deliberate identification of the child as “sick” and the choice of an intervention format that avoids direct dealing with the rest of the family may make change possible where it might otherwise not have occurred. Child psychotherapy is shown to have important elements in common with recently developed symptom oriented treatment methods.