Download Author: Clarkin, John F.

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Approaches to Family Therapy

Family therapy might broadly be thought of as any type of psychosocial intervention utilizing a conceptual framework that gives primary emphasis to the family system and that, in its therapeutic strategies, aims for an impact on the entire family structure. (55 pp.)

Differential Therapeutics

In this chapter, we will illustrate the process of differential treatment planning by discussing an actual case assessed and treated by one of the authors (PBR). Because of the need for detailed transcripts of the treatment, and also the need for a patient stable and cooperative enough to provide follow-up and reactions to the treatment, we selected an outpatient with considerable assets and a somewhat focal problem suitable for time-limited intervention. Thus, this particular case is better suited for following the intricacies of the therapy process than for following the complications in differential treatment planning. For the application of differential therapeutics across diagnostic categories. 65 pp.