title: [Treatment techniques in systemic family therapy with children].
abstract: Play and creativity are essential ingredients of therapeutic work with children. Systemic family therapists have to take the developmental stage of children into account and must adapt their interactional style, the therapeutic setting, their language and their interventions to the needs of children. Since the very beginning of family therapy, a large number of practical recommendations for child participation in family therapy have been compiled. This article presents a number of therapy techniques and case examples illustrating the broad range of interventions that are being applied in systemic family therapy with children.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Psychosomatische Kooperationsforschung und Familientherapie, Psychosomatische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 54, 69115 Heidelberg. Ruediger_Retzlaff@med.uni-heidelberg.de
authors.forename: Rüdiger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Retzlaff
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003405:Creativity; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010989:Play Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012931:Social Environment