Short Term Family Therapy

Kaffman, Mordecai

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1963.00216.x

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“…In my first professional article (Kaffman, 1963), devoted entirely to the rationale, indications, and techniques of short-term family therapy (STFT), I reported my findings and results of brief therapy in a sample of 70 kibbutz and urban families referred to us in the early 1960s because of distressing child-centered emotional problems. In about 75% of the cases considerable improvement was obtained through STFT--up to 10 sessionsmas shown by the total disappearance of the central complaint or the accompanying distress.…”

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“…Among the cases that were included in this paper on STFT (Kaffman, 1963), the following vignette may serve as an illustration of the use of our model: Naomi, a 15-year-old kibbutz girl, was referred to the Kibbutz Clinic with the diagnosis of paranoid psychosis with severe psychiatric dysfunctional symptoms which had already lasted for 10 months. The presenting problems included an overall decline of functioning, withdrawal from friends and family members, depressed mood, and school truancy.…”

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“…Exactly the same rate of significant improvement was reported by de Shazer (1985, p.4) within an average of six sessions per client treated at the Brief Family Therapy Center of the Milwaukee group. Thus many studies reporting the outcome of brief therapy, including our own studies (Kaffman, 1963(Kaffman, , 1987, evidence a high rate of success for suitable individual and family clients. Generally speaking, the expected favorable outcome is obtained either by direct modification or elimination of the symptomatic behavior or by the reduction or removal of a monoideistic engagement of the client and significant others around an annoying behavior (Kaffman, 1983).…”

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Brief therapy in the Israeli kibbutz

Kaffman

1995

Contemp Fam Ther

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Analysis of results of therapy in an unselected sample of 211 kibbutz patients seen over a three year period by the author in his capacity as kibbutz member and psychiatrist indicated that over 70% of the identified patients responded very satisfactorily to brief therapy. About one-third of the clients did not need more than a single comprehensive therapy session to achieve continuous improvement. In a minority of the cases more than 10 sessions were required. The results were significantly better in cases treated by brief therapy than in the sample treated by long-term therapy, where the pre-treatment severity was determined to be greater. The paper describes the unique aspects of brief therapy in the kibbutz setting, giving an outline of the author's model of intervention, using all components of the individual, family, and community ecosystem.KEY WORDS: short-term family therapy; brief therapy; the kibbutz experience.Today the myth that good psychotherapy requires a large number of therapy sessions is gradually being eroded. The classic psychoanalytic elitist and costly model of in-depth psychotherapy, based on an average of four-to-five weekly sessions over an unlimited period of time, has become less and less common. Initially this was replaced by less prolonged "psychodynamic," "strategic," or "psychoanalyticallyoriented" forms of once-weekly therapy sessions over a period of several years, until the appearance in the past three decades of a multiMordecai Kaffman, MD, a member of the International Advisory Board of Contemporary Family Therapy and an honorary member of the Israeli Family Association by special nomination, is the medical director and chief psychiatrist at the Kibbutz Child and Family Therapy Clinic (TELEM), PO Box 48154,

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Brief therapy in the Israeli kibbutz

Kaffman

1995

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“…Eighty-seven per cent of those accepting therapy improved. Such a result could be described as "typical" (Kaffman, 1963;Safer, 1966;Sigal et al, 1967;Wells, 1971); it complements the finding in psychotherapy research that a high percentage of patients receiving any psychotherapeutic treatment (including being assessed and put on a wJiiting list) show improvement (Meltzoff and Kornreich, 1970;Luborsky et al, 1975). The common non-specific factors of psychotherapy (Rosenzweig, 1936;Frank, 1965;Strujjp, 1975) are present in family therapy.…”

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Brief Focal Family Therapy When the Child Is the Referred Patient–ii. Methodology and Results

Kinston

Bentovim²

1978

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Summary The experience of a workshop set up within a Department of Child Psychiatry to foster family therapy and to develop a brief focal technique is described. Details are provided of the first 29 cases. Twenty‐two families engaged in therapy and the referred child improved in 19 (87%) of these cases. Family change was measured using a methodology developed by Malan to assess psychodynamic change in individuals and problems in adapting it are discussed. Eleven (50%) of the engaged famines improved. The pattern of child and family improvement supported the theory that a symptomatic child can be a manifestation of family pathology. A contraindication to the brief focal approach is past or present formal mental illness in a parent. Marital disturbance was frequently covert: this affected the therapeutic plan but was not related to outcome.

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“…Seven of the studies can be grouped together because of their essential similarity in relying upon therapist evaluation, and client or patient self‐reports at termination and their common neglect of any pre‐therapy or follow‐up measurement. These consist of the reports of Bellville, Raths and Bellville (4), Bowen (5), Carroll, et al , (8), Kaffman (23), Pittman, et al , (38), Schreiber (41), and Wells (46). The results of these studies will be reported in a later section in which the clinical evaluations of family therapy will be discussed.…”

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The Results of Family Therapy: A Critical Review of the Literature

Wells

Dilkes

Trivelli³

1972

Family Process

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A search was conducted in the family therapy literature for studied which reported on the outcome of family therapy. It was difficult to find any consensus on a definition of family therapy. Therefore an arbitrary definition, involving the predominant use of joint and family interviews, was stipulated. A total of eighteen studies met minimal standards for inclusion and were summarized and discussed in this paper. Only two of these studies could be considered adequate in their research design; the remainder of the studies were (with one borderline exception) considered inadequate. The clinical evaluations of family therapy were summarized and possible methods and goals for future research into the outcome of family therapy are discussed.

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Short Term Family Therapy

Cited by 34 publications

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Brief therapy in the Israeli kibbutz

Brief therapy in the Israeli kibbutz

Brief Focal Family Therapy When the Child Is the Referred Patient–ii. Methodology and Results

The Results of Family Therapy: A Critical Review of the Literature

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