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Story Corner THE NORMAL FAMILY At Williams Road Family Therapy Centre there is a good library of video tapes of different Families with different problems. One of my colleagues commented that it was unfortunate that the library did not have a video tape of a 'normal' family. We decided to remedy the situation. We told our friends, colleagues and students that we would like to interview a 'normal' family, assured them we would be discreet and not delve into any embarrassing areas. We offered to pay the family and to arrange a time suitable to it. IJI.VI)' ...... t U ner Weeks passed and no family turned up. We kept reminding everyone with no result. We explained that we were happy to use any family which regarded itself as normal, or any family that our colleagues considered well functioning and able to cope with its problems. Still the lack of response was deafening. We then decided to advertise in the local paper specifying the above conditions. Again nothing happened. We readvertised, but the silence persisted. We enquired once more from our colleagues and students. After prolonged questioning, one of our students said that he vaguely remembered, when standing at a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 1986 Australian Association of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/j.1467-8438.1986.tb01162.x
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THE NORMAL FAMILY At Williams Road Family Therapy Centre there is a good library of video tapes of different Families with different problems. One of my colleagues commented that it was unfortunate that the library did not have a video tape of a 'normal' family. We decided to remedy the situation. We told our friends, colleagues and students that we would like to interview a 'normal' family, assured them we would be discreet and not delve into any embarrassing areas. We offered to pay the family and to arrange a time suitable to it. IJI.VI)' ...... t U ner Weeks passed and no family turned up. We kept reminding everyone with no result. We explained that we were happy to use any family which regarded itself as normal, or any family that our colleagues considered well functioning and able to cope with its problems. Still the lack of response was deafening. We then decided to advertise in the local paper specifying the above conditions. Again nothing happened. We readvertised, but the silence persisted. We enquired once more from our colleagues and students. After prolonged questioning, one of our students said that he vaguely remembered, when standing at a

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 1986

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