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A study of social problems in a group of young women treated with brief psychotherapy
Author(s) -
Shaw Phyllis
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1977.tb02408.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neglect , daughter , allowance (engineering) , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , evolutionary biology , engineering , biology
This paper reports on a series of young women with social problems treated with brief psychotherapy in a NHS setting and fulfilling definite selection criteria. It is suggested that we have paid more attention to the role of the mother in infancy and have tended to neglect the influence of the father. While we have studied emotional change in the growing child we have not perhaps made sufficient allowance for changes in parents. This study examines the role of the father in his daughter's adolescence. Awareness of this factor in the clinical setting might help to shorten the course of psychotherapy in appropriate cases. Sociologically it is relevant to our views on parenthood.