Working with families of chronic asthmatics

Systemic Research on Chronicity Factors in Infantile Asthma

“…But this literature is also eloquent evidence of the failures of this kind of intervention, because, after a temporary improvement during the hospitalization, symptoms reappeared when the child went back to the family, whose rules and dynamics remained totally unmodified. Curiously, even some authors, like Sandler (45) who stated that parentectomy was unquestionably insufficient and emphasized the necessity to intervene in the family dynamics, the origin of emotional tensions, nevertheless proposed a family therapy separate from that of the child's therapy.…”

The Age of Accountability:* The Next Phase for Family Therapy

“…In relation to the kinds of clients and complaints, family therapy has been utilized with children including the emotionally disturbed (Tittler, Friedman, Blotcky, and Stredrak, 1982) or conduct disordered children (Griest and Wells, 1983), mentally-retarded children (Turner, 1980), children with learning difficulties (Kaslowand Cooper, 1978), school problems (McDaniel, 1981), tics (Tiller, 1978), enuresis (Selig, 1982) encopresis (Andolfi, 1978;Dreman, 1977;Protinsky and Kersey, 1983), elective mutism (Rosenberg and Lindblad, 1978), chronic asthma (Sandler, 1977), migraine (Rosenstock and Cambor, 1979), leukemia (Kupst, Tylke, Thomas, Mudd, Richardson, and Schulman, 1982) as well as children of concentration camp survivors (Krell, 1982) and children of victims of terrorist activities (Dreman and Cohen, 1982).…”