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Case Report: Smuggling Family Therapy Through
Author(s) -
VIARO MAURIZIO
Publication year - 1980
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.1545-5300.1980.00035.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , constraint (computer aided design) , population , orientation (vector space) , psychology , politics , psychotherapist , medicine , criminology , political science , law , engineering , environmental health , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics
Therapists with a family systems orientation are, on occasion, called upon to work in settings where political constraint, cultural patterns or the unchangeable expectations of the clinical population make it impossible to identify the treatment as being directed at the family. Under these circumstances, family therapy concepts and techniques may be employed by smuggling them in under another label. This article describes a setting in which such a strategy was necessary.