Family Interviewing and Family Therapy

The ADHD debate: being mindful of complexity and wary of reductionist explanations and polarization

“…However the point is that, regardless of our personal interests and professional preferences, we need to stay updated to provide good quality information and explanation to families who might misinterpret evidence. For example, we might not be trained family therapists but when evidence emerges (Eisler and Lask, ) we need to update ourselves and ensure the effective new interventions are implemented. We might not like genetics but when evidence emerges we need to understand and appraise it so that we are able to communicate and clarify findings to families who ask.…”

Family and Psychiatric Illness: Family Therapy

“…There is increasing evidence to support the value of systemic approaches and an increasing commitment from practitioners to develop and work from a sound evidence base (Eisler and Lask, 2009;Carr, 2014a,b). There is increasing evidence to support the value of systemic approaches and an increasing commitment from practitioners to develop and work from a sound evidence base (Eisler and Lask, 2009;Carr, 2014a,b).…”

Family therapy and the head of Janus

“…Omer and colleagues describe the use of non‐violent resistance in families where one person is abusive to others, which reminds us of some of the early work of Jay Haley and Milton Erickson (Haley, 1973). Of course, as fits a more collaborative era, Omer et al do not repeat the ‘trickery’ of those times but the purposive, yet respectful nature of their therapy is a reminder that strategic interventions that have a clear influencing intent (Bertrando, 2006; Eisler and Lask, 2008) continue to play a role in contemporary family therapy. Similarly, although Van Lawick and Bom describe in detail how they are able to use a collaborative stance with ‘hard‐to‐engage’ families, their work seems to echo that of Minuchin (Minuchin et al , 1967) in the inner city of New York.…”