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Is a Confrontational Tone Necessary in Conjoint Therapy?
Author(s) -
Wile Daniel B.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1978.tb00521.x
Subject(s) - tone (literature) , disadvantage , psychology , field (mathematics) , family therapy , focus (optics) , orientation (vector space) , cognitive psychology , computer science , social psychology , psychotherapist , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physics , geometry , mathematics , pure mathematics , optics
The dominant model in the field of conjoint therapy is the notion of the family as a unit or system (Beels & Ferber, 1969) and, in particular, as a homeostatic system in which change in one part requires compensatory adjustment in others (Jackson, 1957). This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the systems model and proposes an alternative approach, the paired bind model. The paired bind orientation retains the major advantage of the systems approach (its focus upon couple and family interactions) while eliminating its major disadvantage (its oppositional tone ).