RESUMO
Many therapists in Community Health Centers work with children and families but lack training and experience in resolving child/family problems. Inexperienced therapists often find the family therapy models described in the literature too complex. This paper desccribes a simplified view of family survival functions and a related problem-oriented intervention technique evolved for the training and supervision of community health workers.
Assuntos
Terapia Familiar/métodos , Adulto , Criança , Transtornos do Comportamento Infantil/reabilitação , Centros Comunitários de Saúde Mental , Família , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Resolução de ProblemasRESUMO
This paper describes the application of strategic family therapy as the core treatment model in a teaching hospital child and family psychiatry service providing outpatient and residential care. The admission of the whole family is seen as a desirable innovation in that it may prevent the process by which admission of the troubled child acts as reinforcement to, and a continuation of, family dysfunction.