ABSTRACT
Often lost among theories, techniques, and tasks is the concept of therapist. As the therapist, you are responsible for eliciting information from strangers and altering their perspective of the problem in a way that creates a change in family interaction patterns. Notice that the emphasis is on you, not on the family. Families are responsible only for implementing changes invoked by you. Their implementation of these requests generally reflects the quality of therapy. Most often, their resistance to change reflects inadequate conceptualization of the problem, or inappropriate and unimaginative tasks.
