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This paper describes the development of the training programme offered at the Family Institute in Cardiff and presents the results of a retrospective survey reflecting the ‘consumers’ views of the programme. Questionnaires were sent to all students who had trained at the Institute between 1972 and 1977, to elicit information about their views of the placement, as well as their post‐qualifying experience, activities and interest in family therapy. A briefer preliminary report has been published earlier (Dowling and Seligman, 1980).

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This paper is a description of three family sessions with parents and their 19 year old and 17 year old sons. Their GP had referred the older son to the Family Institute, Cardiff as an “urgent” case saying that the son was taking LSD and cannabis and spending periods of time away from home. The paper argues in favour of a “non‐pathological” approach to some adolescents who are on the brink of receiving serious psychiatric labels.