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The Family Life Cycle and Clinical Intervention *
Author(s) -
Hughes Sally Farmer,
Berger Michael,
Wright Larry
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.tb00538.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , identification (biology) , psychology , family therapy , psychotherapist , family life , family relationship , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , sociology , gender studies , botany , biology
With an aim toward encouraging more precise identification and treatment of familial dysfunction, the authors suggest combining the principles of first and second order change (Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch, 1974) with the concept of the family life cycle (Duvall, 1971). A theoretical discussion is followed by clinical case examples .