Intensive Structural Therapy

I would like to congratulate Context on its 100th issue.

Such occasions call for reflection both in terms of the past, family therapy’s first 50 years, as well as the future, how do we do a better job?

To read the rest of this article by Charles Fishman, published in Issue 100 of Context, download Whither Family Therapy: The Next 50 Years [83 KB pdf]

Context, the magazine for family therapy is published by The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK.

NZ Eating Disorder Specialists has opened its private clinic in Auckland to help people and their families overcome eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The clinic has 30 years of expertise and is the only clinic in New Zealand using the family therapy approach of Intensive Structural Therapy.
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Adolescence is a strange wondrous stage, both for the young person as well as the family. No-one can deny that, just as a tadpole becomes a frog, there are biological changes in children in terms of physical and, somewhat slower, emotional maturity. The family, along with the peers and other social force help shape the emerging adult. Certain tips for parents can facilitate and make this voyage easier, in my experience. (more…)

I believe that one of the most useful assessment tools available to the family therapist is the concept of the homeostatic maintainer, the individuals or social forces that are maintaining a given problem and must therefore be included in the treatment.

The term homeostatic maintainer derives from the word homeostasis or same state. As used in biology or physiology, homeostatis refers to a process of maintaining sameness by restoring a system to a state from which it periodically departs. (more…)

Intensive Structural Family Therapy is an effective tool for transforming systemic issues of eating disorder sufferers. A major question for all successful treatment is how long will the positive changes be maintained. Will there be regression?
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