Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Family and Systemic Therapies 347 at least once would easily lead to erroneous conclusions being drawn, or to a lack of apprecia ...

348 Chapter 41 pathology within the person, often as a constitutional or pathogenic characteristic; the cause was frequently see ...

Family and Systemic Therapies 349 Structural family therapy Salvador Minuchin developed this approach in the 1960s, working with ...

350 Chapter 41 Box 41.2An example of classical structural family therapy Mr Jones is a maths teacher, and Mrs Jones is a former ...

Family and Systemic Therapies 351 and will be affecting all members in different ways. The task of therapy includes revealing th ...

352 Chapter 41 years of rancorous feelings and despondent explanations can be bypassed in favour of concentrating on what can be ...

Family and Systemic Therapies 353 wife no longer runs everything in the house if the therapist is telling her what to do; or if ...

354 Chapter 41 severity of the symptom and attention is paid to what was happening at the time. The focus is on what happens whe ...

Family and Systemic Therapies 355 away from home like her older sister. As they are revealed, the beliefs can be tested against ...

356 Chapter 41 Circular questioning This means that one question leads on to the next in a different direction outwards, rather ...

Family and Systemic Therapies 357 Individuals are asked to state the problem in behavioural terms, not in terms of mood states. ...

358 Chapter 41 Paradox and counterparadox Aparadoxis set up by the family’s acceptance of the therapist’s pos- itive connotatio ...

Family and Systemic Therapies 359 Evaluation of family therapy Criticisms Some family therapists have little knowledge of specif ...

360 Chapter 41 so the results are impressive, even if effect sizes are often modest, of the order 0.3–0.6 standard deviations. S ...

CHAPTER 42 Fostering and Adoption When parents cannot look after their children, then it may be necessary for them to be fostere ...

362 Chapter 42 through the local authority, some people may make private arrangements for others to bring up their children, and ...

Fostering and Adoption 363 good, whereas social skill development was often substantially impaired, leaving the children seeming ...

364 Chapter 42 commoner. Particularly raised is the prevalence of autistic spectrum dis- orders and ADHD-like syndromes, especia ...

Fostering and Adoption 365 the child or adolescent and prevents them from beginning to make secure and trusting relationships. 2 ...

366 Chapter 42 this. (2) Deciding how much contact with birth parents should be allowed, especially where this is undermining or ...