Abstract
This paper describes the application of strategic family therapy as the core treatment model in a teaching hospital child and family psychiatry service providing outpatient, daypatient and residential care. The admission of the whole family is seen as a desirable innovation in that it may prevent the process by which admission of the troubled child acts as reinforcement to, and a continuation of, family dysfunction.
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Peter Churven
Joyce Laing works in the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Playfield House, Cupar, Fife, and is a Consultant Art Therapist to Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons and Chairwoman of the Scottish Society of Art and Psychology.