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Letters Paediatric Oncology Social Worker St James University Hospital Leeds LS9 7TF England SINGLE-SESSION THERAPY - A CAUTIONARY NOTE The excellent and thought provoking article by Patricia Boyhan in the June 1996 edition of the Journal, which reported on the results of a trial of single-session therapy undertaken by the Bouverie Family Therapy Centre, has provoked me to write to the Journal in order to raise some concerns regarding this approach to therapy. In no way should this letter be seen as a critique of the research or the article, nor of the Bouverie Centre which is widely known for excellence in its programs. Rather the article and some ideas in it have acted as a prompt to put into writing those concerns, that have arisen for me since the presentation on "Open Days" by Laurie MacKinnon and me at the 1992 ANZ Family Therapy Conference and the subsequent Open Day article, (Price, 1994). The "Open Day" approach to single-session therapy seemed to be the first such family therapy approach in Australia. It grew out of the concerns of a group of therapists working for Dalmar, a child and family welfare organisation, in Sydney's outer-western suburbs. In particular, it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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References (2)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 1996 Australian Association of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/j.1467-8438.1996.tb01092.x
Publisher site
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Abstract

Paediatric Oncology Social Worker St James University Hospital Leeds LS9 7TF England SINGLE-SESSION THERAPY - A CAUTIONARY NOTE The excellent and thought provoking article by Patricia Boyhan in the June 1996 edition of the Journal, which reported on the results of a trial of single-session therapy undertaken by the Bouverie Family Therapy Centre, has provoked me to write to the Journal in order to raise some concerns regarding this approach to therapy. In no way should this letter be seen as a critique of the research or the article, nor of the Bouverie Centre which is widely known for excellence in its programs. Rather the article and some ideas in it have acted as a prompt to put into writing those concerns, that have arisen for me since the presentation on "Open Days" by Laurie MacKinnon and me at the 1992 ANZ Family Therapy Conference and the subsequent Open Day article, (Price, 1994). The "Open Day" approach to single-session therapy seemed to be the first such family therapy approach in Australia. It grew out of the concerns of a group of therapists working for Dalmar, a child and family welfare organisation, in Sydney's outer-western suburbs. In particular, it

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family TherapyWiley

Published: Sep 1, 1996

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