title: Community network therapy: an approach to aiding families with troubled children.
abstract: This paper outlines a method of working with troubled children that draws upon structural family therapy, school consultation, patient advocacy, and community mental health work. This blending of approaches is presented as the basis for an evolving mode of treatment referred to as community network therapy. Four of its principal dimensions are described, and examples of its clinical application are offered.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D003142:Communication; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003469:Culture; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010379:Peer Group; D011203:Poverty; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012572:School Health Services; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012934:Social Isolation