An application of strategic family therapy to a residential child and family psychiatry service: Redbank House.
This paper describes the application of strategic family therapy as the core treatment model in a teaching hospital child and family psychiatry service providing outpatient and residential care. The admission of the whole family is seen as a desirable innovation in that it may prevent the process by which admission of the troubled child acts as reinforcement to, and a continuation of, family dysfunction.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D012114:Residential Treatment