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Hatcher, Chris – Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, 1978
Family therapy is primarily focused upon interpersonal or transactional issues. Gestalt therapy is particularly well suited for short term work on intrapersonal and boundary issues. This paper shows how the selective integration of the two approaches provides a significant, new dimension in the development of family therapy. (Author)
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Helping Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Intervention
Wile, Daniel B. – Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, 1978
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the systems model and proposes an alternative approach, the paired bind model. The paired bind orientation retains the major advantage of the systems approach (its focus upon couple and family interactions) while eliminating its major disadvantage (its oppositional tone). (Author)
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Family Relationship, Models, Psychological Studies
Doyle, Averil Marie; Dorlac, Charles – Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, 1978
This article presents a method for family crisis intervention. The goal is extended from restoring the crisis bearing unit to its pre-crisis level of coping to a basic restructuring of maladaptive pre-crisis behaviors. It is aimed at general behavior change as well as resolution of the immediate situation. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Counseling, Crisis Intervention
Turner, Marcia B.; Gross, Steven Jay – Journal of Family Counseling, 1976
An affective rele-altering model of family therapy is outlined. The role of affect, conflict, and demand-making are examined to note similarities and differences with other approaches to family intervention. Terms utilized within the model are defined and illustrations provided. The implications for the affective therapist's use of self are…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Theories, Family Counseling
Feldman, Larry B. – Journal of Family Counseling, 1976
Theories about the ways in which family therapy promotes behavioral change are reviewed and a conceptual scheme containing four models or papadigms is proposed. Clinical and research evidence supporting each of the models is presented, and the overall scheme is discussed in relation to a systems theory approach to family therapy. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling, Family Counseling, Family Relationship
Sheinbein, Marc – Journal of Family Counseling, 1976
Familial psychosocial development is a series of choice points, or crises, and progressive separations from the family itself. The role of the family therapist is to help the family members evolve concurrently to stages of higher maturity and autonomy. A family therapy model based on developmental stage theory is proposed. (Author)
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Crisis Intervention, Decision Making, Family Counseling
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Apfelbaum, Bernard – Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 1977
This paper illustrates an ego-analytic strategy by describing the hypothetical treatment of a couple who were not capable of or motivated by conventional therapy and for whom strictly behavioral sex therapy failed. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems
Russell, Axel; Russell, Lila – Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, 1978
A heuristic model is presented for the diagnosis and treatment of families in stress. A systems approach and psychoanalytic concepts are integrated to understand and modify dysfunctional behavior transmitted across generations. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Family Counseling, Family Problems, Marriage Counseling
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Sonne, John C. – International Journal of Family Therapy, 1980
Unrooted children who have lost parents through divorce, separation, death, or abandonment need as a model an external psychological family in order to complete their developmental task of constructing an internalized triadic family image. (Author)
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Development, Children, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Hozman, Thomas L.; Froiland, Donald J. – Family Coordinator, 1976
The authors present a model designed to facilitate counseling with preadolescent children whose parents are experiencing a divorce. The model, based on a standard loss model, is followed by techniques used in helping the child work through each phase of his feeling regarding the divorce. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Divorce
Coleman, Paul R.; Griffith, Mariellen – 1980
A brief review of systems theory provides a rationale for an underlying theoretical model within which systems theory can be more completely understood. The essence of the model is that persons are the major unit of study because the available means of satisfying "basic needs" define and shape interaction patterns in the family as in other human…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Counselor Role, Ecological Factors, Family Counseling
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Wells, Susan J. – Social Work, 1981
Addresses the problem of how to adapt a "talking treatment" for use with abusive and neglectful families. The concept of a family's "verbal accessibility," or readiness to communicate, can assist workers in understanding these families and designing the most effective plan for treatment. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Cognitive Development, Communication Problems, Counseling Techniques
Walsh, William M. – 1981
Integrative family therapy is an integration of personality theory and counseling theory actualized in the counseling process. Personality theory contributes five interrelated concepts to a model of family therapy, including communication/perception, individual roles, family subunits, family themes, and individual personality dynamics; these…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Family Counseling
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West, John D.; Kirby, Jonell, Eds. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1981
Examines the view that individual pathologies and problems are manifestations of family dysfunctions. The interdependence of family members is the critical element in the family group therapy process. Intervention involves the disruption of the dynamic balance maintained by the family system. (RC)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Family Counseling
Rank, Mark R.; Sabatelli, Ronald M. – 1982
This paper discusses path analysis and the applicability of this methodology to the field of family studies. The statistical assumptions made in path analysis are presented along with a description of the two types of models within path analysis, i.e., recursive and non-recursive. Methods of calculating in the path model and the advantages of…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Crisis Intervention, Divorce, Family Counseling