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Chapter 9 - Systemic Family Therapy

from Section 2 - Other Forms of Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

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P. J. Saju
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Rachel Gibbons  and
Jo O'Reilly
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Summary

Family therapy represents a major conceptual shift in the approach to understanding and treatment of psychological disturbance and mental illness. Within this approach symptoms are understood as the consequence of disturbance in the functioning of the family as a whole, expressed by the individual with the manifest difficulty. An understanding of how the identified patient and family affect each other both positively and negatively can lead to effective family interventions.

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Seminars in the Psychotherapies , pp. 111 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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