Collaborative Therapy with Parents at Child Guidance Clinics

Multiple Impact Psychotherapy with Families

“…There are also views in the literature as to whether the “child welfare focus” or focus on the adolescent‐adult conflict (10) is more therapeutic. For example, Rosenthal (11) cites the difficulty arising in treatment where the parent's welfare is only of interest as it has bearing on the child. Otto Pollak (12) in retrospect observes that as their study of “family psychotherapy with a child welfare focus” progressed the matter of regarding the child or parent as the patient was less useful then the concept of treating “sick situations.” The present project has committed itself from the outset to the interactional viewpoint in its treatment of such family situations 3…”