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OBESITY AND FAMILY SYSTEMS: A FAMILY FIRO APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT PLANNING 1
Author(s) -
Doherty William J.,
Harkaway Jill Elka
Publication year - 1990
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.1752-0606.1990.tb00849.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , psychology , obesity , family systems , psychotherapist , medicine , developmental psychology
This paper offers a model for conceptualizing interactional patterns in families presenting for treatment of obesity, and suggests a method for organizing assessment and for prioritizing treatment strategies. We use the Family FIRO Model as a framework to organize complex assessment issues, to assign priorities for which issues should be treated first, and to select appropriate treatment techniques that cut across different models of family therapy.