ABSTRACT
An organized approach to therapy must at once explain the change process and the therapist’s role in it, guiding us toward its curative factors and away from constructs and interventions that are, by that theory’s reckoning and organization, antithetical to change. Drawn rationally from the strategic and structural perspectives and empirically from our practice, we have identified four factors that form the foundation of intervention in both the microcosm of the family and the macrocosm of child protective services (CPS). They are personal influence, the belief in free will, utilization, and contextual change.
