THERAPEUTIC EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL NETWORK INTERVENTIONS COMPARED TO GROUPS OF 'INTIMATE STRANGERS'

Authors

  • CAROLYN L. ATTNEAVE Author

Keywords:

INTIMATE STRANGERS, THERAPEUTIC EFFECTIVENESS

Abstract

Actively promoting network building and integration can be effective in diminishing or preventing fragmentation of families in crisis. Such an approach supports the strengths and resources of the network members as well as the identified patient(s) and lessens the likelihood that the service agency will unwittingly foster an unnecessarily dependent relationship.

References

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Speck, Ross, To Free a Generation: The Dialectics of Liberation, Edited by David Cooper, New York, McMillan, 1969.

Speck, Ross and Carolyn Attneave, Family Networks, New York, Vintage Books, 1973.

Stack, Carol, All Our Kin, San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1974.

White, Harvey, Your Family is Good for You, New York, Random House, 1978.

Published

2025-01-16

Issue

Vol. 32 (1979): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

Section

Articles

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