Intensive family intervention in a community consultation framework |
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| Authors: | Erel Shalit Shamai Davidson† |
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| Institution: | Community Mental Health Unit of Shalvata Psychiatric Centre, Kupat Holim, Eliezer Jafe Street, Ra'anana, Israel. (Requests for reprints to this address.);Shalvata Mental Health Centre, Kupat-Holim, Hod Hasharon, Israel. Affiliated to Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. |
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| Abstract: | This article describes a form of mental health consultation to community workers who have reached a state of crisis in their work with unmotivated, multi-problem families. The central part of the consultation is a therapeutic intervention that draws on principles of time extension and network intervention. The consultant sees the family together with its community workers in a one-time, intensive meeting of up to six hours duration. This meeting is divided into three phases, aimed at achieving respectively (1) structural, (2) emotional, and (3) cognitive imbalancing of the family system. This creates a new situation, which hopefully will enable the community workers and the family to move out of the crisis in which they had become stuck. |
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