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de Shazer, Steve – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1980
Presents a therapeutic procedure designed to prescribe the family's troublesome behavior pattern. A complement precedes delivering a task assignment. The metaphorical task redefines the serious complaint pattern into only one of the many options a family has for dealing with each other. A case study is presented. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Change Strategies