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Introducing Videotape to the Family in the Role of a Specialized Member of the Treatment System *
Author(s) -
Metcoff Jill
Publication year - 1980
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.1752-0606.1980.tb01300.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , interpersonal communication , set (abstract data type) , psychology , psychotherapist , family therapy , process (computing) , interpersonal relationship , style (visual arts) , family member , social psychology , computer science , medicine , psychiatry , family medicine , programming language , operating system , archaeology , history
Although videotape replay in clinical treatment is becoming common, intervention opportunities have been limited by conceptualizing this tool as equipment to be mastered or as a set of how‐to‐do‐it techniques. Videotape intervention is a process which begins when the equipment is introduced to the family. Introducing this equipment as an unthinking, almost human, record keeper is the first step in a process which leads to the understanding that videotaped information is initially available to provide interpersonal behavioral data. Utilizing this approach, the therapist avoids a therapist‐video‐family triangle while channelling the potentially anxious responses of family members to their recorded images into an interpersonal viewing style.