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The Therapeutic Advantage to the Family Therapist of Intervening in the Family‐Clinician System
Author(s) -
HURLEY R. PETER
Publication year - 1982
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.1545-5300.1982.00435.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , context (archaeology) , family systems , psychotherapist , psychology , family systems theory , medical diagnosis , perception , medicine , social psychology , developmental psychology , paleontology , pathology , neuroscience , biology
Attempting family therapy in the context of a family‐clinician system poses extreme difficulties for the therapist. He cannot be effective if he diagnoses only the family system. He must broaden his analysis to include other clinicians' transactions with the family. Once he accomplishes this perceptual leap, he can intervene in the family‐clinician system most effectively with paradoxical methods. He may find that a change in his own contribution to the system solves the family's problem.