title: Time-extended family interviewing.
abstract: This paper presents a family-therapy technique--time-extended family interviewing--in which the therapist extends the traditional one-hour interview to three to seven hours, by plan, at a particular point in the life of a case and for a particular purpose. Extended sessions promote movement in a case for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, the use of such sessions highlights the dimension of time as an important element of good casework practice.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003142:Communication; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011616:Psychotherapy, Multiple; D012381:Role Playing; D013997:Time Factors