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Outcomes of Systemic/Strategic Team Consultation: I. Overview and One‐Month Results
Author(s) -
GREEN ROBERTJAY,
HERGET MARY
Publication year - 1989
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.1545-5300.1989.00037.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , systemic therapy , psychology , medicine , family medicine , paleontology , cancer , breast cancer , biology
This is the first in a series of reports on an experimental, small‐sample study of systemic/strategic team consultations. This report describes a “Milan‐informed” method of team consultation for resolving therapy impasses. It then focuses on the initial one‐month outcomes from the larger 3‐year project. Eleven therapists were asked to select two ongoing cases matched for difficulty. While all cases continued in regular therapy, one of each therapist's cases was also selected at random to participate in a systemic/strategic, five‐part team consultation. Analyses of one‐month follow‐up data showed that clients who participated in the team consultation were more likely to achieve their main and overall treatment goals than clients who received only regular therapy (p's < .05, eta 2 as a measure of effect size ranging from 32% to 41%). The strong findings of this initial study encourage more widespread use of team consultations as a context for treatment, training, and research.