Family therapy with a depressed adolescent.
Families can have a significant influence on a child's mental health. Family therapy is a treatment modality that can be used alone or in combination with other treatment modalities. Family therapy strategies include psychodynamic, structural, strategic, and cognitive-behavioral schools. In this article the different schools are described and a case of a depressed teenager is used to illustrate how each type of family therapy is implemented.
Broderick
Pamela
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Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.
Weston
Christina
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