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Treating Chronic Crisis Bearers and Their Families *
Author(s) -
Doyle Averil Marie,
Dorlac Charles
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.tb00525.x
Subject(s) - crisis intervention , restructuring , coping (psychology) , intervention (counseling) , psychology , unit (ring theory) , psychotherapist , psychiatry , political science , law , mathematics education
This article presents a method for family crisis intervention, utilizing a case history approach. The goal is extended from restoring the crisis bearing unit to its pre‐crisis level of coping to a basic restructuring of maladaptive pre‐crisis behaviors. It is aimed at general behavior change as well as resolution of the immediate situation. It adapts crisis intervention theory to intervention involving chronic crisis bearers and their families. It eliminates the tendency to identify one member of the family unit as the patient without considering the impact of the other members. This approach consists of short term intensive treatment combined with selected traditional techniques .