title: [Therapeutic letters as an intervention in family therapy--exemplified by a case of school phobia].
abstract: The paper presents the case of an 11 year old boy with school phobia. As the case shows, written interventions in the form of letters can be an added and very effective resource of family therapy, that can help to reduce the number of family sessions. Despite the added work of writing them they prove to be an advantage for the therapist in many ways. One undoubted asset of written messages is that--unlike the spoken word--they can be kept and re-read at leisure. They also enable the therapist to communicate with family members who avoid the sessions.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Czech
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Wernitznig
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Therapeutische Briefe als Intervention in der Familientherapie--dokumentiert am Fallbeispiel einer Schulphobie.