Family Sculpting in Preventive Work with "Well Families" |
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| Authors: | PEGGY PAPP M.S.W. OLGA SILVERSTEIN M.S.W. ELIZABETH CARTER M.S.W. |
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| Affiliation: | Director of Community Programs, Nathan W. Ackerman Family Institute, New York.;Psychiatric Social Worker, Nathan W. Ackerman Family Institute, New York.;Co-ordinator of Family Therapy Unit of New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, New York. |
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| Abstract: | This paper will describe an experimental community project aimed at "well families". The program was designed to be preventive by providing service to families before their problems escalated into crisis proportions. It emphasized an educational rather than treatment bias; this orientation forced us to expand concepts, experiment with new techniques, and re-evaluate our ideas on how families change. Of particular importance to us was the emphasis on behavioral change rather than intellectual insight. In the course of this work, family sculpting came to be an increasingly valuable tool. |
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