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Implementing Single Session Family Consultation: A Reflective Team Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Denise Fry
Denise Fry*
Affiliation:
Alfred Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Victoria, Australia
*
Address for correspondence: Denise Fry, Family Therapist/Senior Psychiatric Nurse, Alfred Child and Youth Mental Health Service, 2/999 Nepean Highway, Moorabbin VIC 3189, Australia. Email: D.Fry@alfred.org.au
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Abstract

Setting up and implementing a single session family consultation in a specialist child and adolescent mental health setting, which for a long time has been an organisation and culture that has undertaken a traditional detailed child and family assessment and treatment, brings with it challenges. This paper will look at the history of single session consultation within the field of child and family services and, in particular, child and family services in mental health. It will also look at the development and implementation of a single session therapy program, and associated research on the effectiveness of the program, at the Alfred Child and Youth Mental Health Service. Clinical examples will assist in illustrating the program and its model and structures. Lastly, it will review the research data and compare this with other research data in the field.

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 54 - 69
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Copyright © The Authors 2012

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