This study assessed the effect of actuarial variables, such as referral source, distance client must travel for the appointment, client socioeconomic status, and waiting time on client defection in a child guidance clinic. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to describe a model enabling students and practitioners of family therapy to think clearly about the practice of it, and to analyze constructively various authors' works. This categorizing model includes perceptual framework, field of focus, theory of pathology, treatment strategies, and treatment techniques. (Author)

This study investigates changes in child behavior following a clearly defined program of Adlerian Family Counseling, using a control group of families who did not participate in counseling. (Author)

This article presents a model of family therapy which may be described as primarily conjoint therapy integrating techniques of conflict resolution into family systems theory. Conflict between the biological parents and other adults is actively elicited, old hostilities surfaced, and the sharing of here-and-now feelings is encouraged. (Author)

Child custody statutes are increasingly incorporating psychosocial and educational criteria as bases for making custody decisions. In view of the current legal trends, it seems important that family counselors attain an understanding of major issues surrounding child custody decisions. (Author)

Twelve couples in marital counseling were studied during 12 months on the basis of their biorhythms. For each couple a compatibility percentage was obtained. It was found that difficulties in their interaction correlated highly with dissonance in their biorhythms. (Author)

The crisis of losing a child is described by a parent as she personally rethinks her experiences with terminal illness and grief, the reactions of family and friends, and her encounter with the hospital system and family counseling. (Author)

Family network intervention is a therapeutic approach aiming to mobilize family and friendship support systems in a collaborative effort to solve a crisis. A team of therapists helps the family and its extended social system become involved in a networking process consisting of six distinct phases. (Author)

The increasing use of paradoxical messages and injunctions in marital and familial therapies is reviewed. The theoretical, empirical, and clinical grounds for this practice, on the basis of this review, are still incomplete and questionable. The need for empirical research in this area is still great. (Author)

A holding technique in which the parent as change agent holds the child without punitive or stimulating action was found on followup to be an effective, rapid, and decisive measure for young children and their parents whose basic problem was parental failure to assume authority roles within the family. (Author)

In part one of this two-part paper, skills which distress couples need in order to more effectively solve their marital problems were enumerated. In this section, the technology for helping couples to learn to solve problems more effectively is discussed. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of a family-leisure interface to improving the quality of life in technological societies. The finding suggests that there are many structural and functional similarities between the family and leisure as social processes. (Author)

This paper is an investigation of family pathology from a transactional viewpoint. The thesis proposed is that family pathology is a means of protecting the family and ensuring its survival. The father, mother, and child assume and exchange the roles of the Karpman drama triangle; namely, Persecutor, Victim, and Rescuer. (Author)

Families pass on a heritage of dysfunctional constructs and roles to the next generation. Children learn to apply certain inadequate constructs to themselves. By reconstructing childhood through visual imagery, clients can learn to apply different constructs to themselves so that they can unlearn their dysfunctional roles. (Author)

The family counselor's role in the family's and child's struggle to accept death and all the anger which accompanies the various stages can mean the difference between acceptance without guilt or possible total family disintegration. (Author)