Interviewing Exercises:Lessons from Family Therapy

The Relevance of Family Interviewing for Psychoanalysis

FAMILY INTERVIEWING, or family therapy as some prefer to call it, is by now a well-established, fashionable modality of psychotherapy and, for analysts engaged in such work, one of the many branches of applied psychoanalysis. As yet there is no adequate formulation of the meaning of "applied psychoanalysis, " for it is difficult indeed to define what psychoanalytic training adds to the practice...

Listening is therapy: Patient interviewing from a pain science perspective.

The interview of a patient attending physical therapy is the cornerstone of the physical examination, diagnosis, plan of care, prognosis, and overall efficacy of the therapeutic experience. A thorough, skilled interview drives the objective tests and measures chosen, as well as provides context for the interpretation of those tests and measures, during the physical examination. Information from...

In-Depth Interviewing in Family Medicine Research

Effectiveness of Structural Family Therapy on Therapy Motivation and Family Functioning in Families with Substance Abusers

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of structural family therapy in therapy motivation and family functioning in families with substance abusers. Method: A quasi-experimental research design along with pre-test/post-test and control group was employed for the conduct of this study. The statistical population of this study consisted of all families who presented t...

Parent-teen behavior therapy + motivational interviewing for adolescents with ADHD.

OBJECTIVE This study evaluates a parent-teen skills-based therapy for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) blended with motivational interviewing (MI) to enhance family engagement. Supporting Teens' Autonomy Daily (STAND) is an adolescent-specific treatment for ADHD that targets empirically identified adolescent (i.e., organization, time management, and planning, or OTP skills) and p...