Excommunication as a Family Therapy Technique

Family therapy with adolescent offenders: A collaborative treatment strategy

“…The basic strategy involves collaboration with the juvenile justice system to help parents take charge in situations where the adolescent has *See Barcai and Rabkin (1972) for a description of a dramatic intervention of this sort. Downloaded by [Simon Fraser University] at 16:59 02 February 2015 defied the best efforts of the therapist and parents to stop the child's lawbreaking behavior.…”