Brief Family Therapy: A Metaphorical Task.

de Shazer, Steve

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ERIC Number: EJ236112

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1980-Oct

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Brief Family Therapy: A Metaphorical Task.

de Shazer, Steve

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, v6 n4 p471-76 Oct 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, Family Counseling, Family Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Models, Task Analysis

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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