Psychiatr. praxi 2019; 20(3): 130-132 | DOI: 10.36290/psy.2019.029
Family therapy in psychiatric care
- Dětská nemocnice, PAČ, FN Brno
Family therapy continues to become more and more accepted method to cure menthal illnesses. The casuistry describes psychotherapeutic
work with a patient (11 years) with a principal obsessive compulsive disorder illness. The intervention is based on
systematic family therapy with a special focus to the family context. Throughout the psychotherapeutic process, the whole family
was gradually involved by means of therapy tasks, externalization, scaling, questions on wonders, questions on exceptions, time
axis. Family therapy substantially contributed to life quality of the family.
Keywords: systemic family therapy, externalisation, circularity, questions on exceptions, scaling, obsessive compulsive disorder
Published: October 11, 2019 Show citation
