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Structural and Strategic Approaches to Psychosomatic Families
Author(s) -
White Michael
Publication year - 1979
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.1545-5300.1979.00303.x
Subject(s) - generalization , psychogenic disease , psychology , intervention (counseling) , sample (material) , degree (music) , psychotherapist , social psychology , management science , developmental psychology , psychiatry , engineering , epistemology , physics , chromatography , acoustics , philosophy , chemistry
Patterns of relatedness characteristic of psychosomatic families are discussed. A step‐wise intervention procedure based on structural and strategic approaches is presented. The goals of the procedure are to establish symptomatic relief and modify concurrently the patterns of relatedness. The procedure is applied to a sample of families in which a child presents with psychogenic abdominal pain. This paper is intended as a detailed and practical guide to working with such families; a degree of generalization is possible, as well.