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Peer reviewedElkaim, Mony – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1981
Uses a case study to show how a therapist can help a family by breaking their loops of preferential behaviors. Describes a systemic approach that helps prevent families from using the same feedback loops that lead to dead-ends in their behavior. (JAC)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Counseling Techniques, Family Counseling
Peer reviewedCaille, Philippe – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1981
Proposes that therapeutic intervention doesn't have the power to create durable, predetermined changes in human systems. Suggests the family's basic rules prohibit it from changing. Discusses a preferable goal of validating the family's present functioning through an understanding of different levels of its self-perception (phenomenological model,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Counseling Techniques, Family (Sociological Unit)
