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Time‐Extended Family Interviewing
Author(s) -
Breslow Diane Birenbaum,
Hron Barbara Green
Publication year - 1977
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.1545-5300.1977.00097.x
Subject(s) - interview , variety (cybernetics) , dimension (graph theory) , psychology , point (geometry) , motivational interviewing , family therapy , plan (archaeology) , psychotherapist , applied psychology , medical education , medicine , sociology , psychiatry , computer science , psychological intervention , history , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , anthropology , pure mathematics
This paper presents a family‐therapy technique — time‐extended family interviewing — in which the therapist extends the traditional one‐hour interview to three to seven hours, by plan, at a particular point in the life of a case and for a particular purpose. Extended sessions promote movement in a case for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, the use of such sessions highlights the dimension of time as an important element of good casework practice.