ABSTRACT
Since 1970 the number of single-parent households has doubled. Of these households, 70 percent are the result of divorce. Fourteen percent are the result of death of a parent, 6 percent are temporary because a parent is away, and 10 percent have not been involved in a marriage (Weiss, 1979). Because of the problems inherent in this type of family system, the single-parent family frequently comes for therapy. The purpose of this chapter is to present systemic/behavioral therapy techniques that the author has found to be very successful. A brief description of systemic/behavioral theory relevant to single-parent family therapy is presented. A single-parent case history is then discussed, from which behavioral/systemic therapy techniques with the single-parent family are illustrated.
