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A Paradigm for Construction of Family Therapy Tasks
Author(s) -
BROWNSTANDRIDGE MARCIA D.
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.1545-5300.1989.00471.x
Subject(s) - task (project management) , session (web analytics) , intervention (counseling) , psychological intervention , family therapy , psychology , dimension (graph theory) , psychotherapist , punctuation , cognitive psychology , computer science , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , engineering , mathematics , world wide web , pure mathematics , systems engineering
Typically, family therapy task interventions involve direct assignment of specific behaviors, which may or may not encourage client compliance. To enhance the clinician's probability of bringing about progress in treatment, this article broadens the parameters of task intervention to include (a) Direct versus Indirect, (b) Behavioral versus Nonbehavioral, and (c) Paradoxical versus Nonparadoxical dimension alternatives. The resulting 2 × 2 × 2 model, the Family Therapy Task Construction Paradigm, yields eight possible choices for end‐of‐the‐session punctuation. Each option is linked to corresponding treatment contexts and illustrated with examples from productive case vignettes.