Families of the slums ; an exploration of their structure and treatment / Salvador Minuchin, Braulio Montalvo, Bernard G. Guerney, Jr., Bernice L. Rosman, Florence Schumer.
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- [1967]
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Description
A study by psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers which examines the problems of poor urban families and assesses measures for their treatment.
Publication/Creation
New York : Basic Books, [1967]
Physical description
xiv, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes
"Grew out of a research project in family therapy conducted at the Wiltwyck School for Boys."
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. The exploratory research: over-all strategy -- 2. Overview -- 3. The Garcias and the Montgomerys: excerpts from transcripts of family treatment sessions -- 4. The La Salles: excerpts from transcripts of family treatment sessions -- 5. The disorganized and disadvantaged family: structure and process -- 6. Therapeutic intervention -- 7. Family assessment: the Wiltwyck Family Task and Family Interaction Apperception Technique -- 8. Afterword -- Appendix A: Twelve families -- Appendix B: Interaction in selected family therapy sessions: a verbal behavior analysis--findings and coding system -- Appendix C: Transcript from a pre-treatment family task session ; Coding system for the family task -- Appendix D: Wiltwyck Family Interaction Apperception Technique (FIAT) cards ; Two pre-treatment FIAT protocols -- Coding system for the FIAT.
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