TY - JOUR
T1 - Distance-Sensitive and Consensus-Sensitive Families
T2 - The Effect on Adolescent Referral for Psychotherapy
AU - Shulman, Shmuel
AU - Klein, Moshe Morris
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - The study deals with the question of why a particular adolescent in a family is referred for psychotherapy. Research has not found clear differences between the parental interaction with the patient and well siblings at the levels described by family theorists. Viewing the family as a system has enabled a new approach to this problem, with the assumption that the dynamics of selecting the index patient will differ from one family system to the other and will satisfy the needs of the system. The findings are that differences exist between the distance-sensitive family and the consensus-sensitive family with regards to the function of the symptom and the process of selecting of the sibling as the index patient.
AB - The study deals with the question of why a particular adolescent in a family is referred for psychotherapy. Research has not found clear differences between the parental interaction with the patient and well siblings at the levels described by family theorists. Viewing the family as a system has enabled a new approach to this problem, with the assumption that the dynamics of selecting the index patient will differ from one family system to the other and will satisfy the needs of the system. The findings are that differences exist between the distance-sensitive family and the consensus-sensitive family with regards to the function of the symptom and the process of selecting of the sibling as the index patient.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0011349068
U2 - 10.1080/01926188308250121
DO - 10.1080/01926188308250121
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AN - SCOPUS:0011349068
SN - 0192-6187
VL - 11
SP - 45
EP - 58
JO - American Journal of Family Therapy
JF - American Journal of Family Therapy
IS - 2
ER -