ABSTRACT

If a troubled family contains the resources to solve its own problems, then why not bring such families together, to share their experiences and support each other? This is the approach of the Marlborough Family Service, the institution at the forefront of development for child-protection cases, school-based interventions and family therapy for ethnic-minority communities for over twenty years. In this book three long-standing staff members describe for the first time their innovative work with a range of family problems, from marital violence and child abuse to educational problems and eating disorders.

chapter One|10 pages

Developing a contextual approach

chapter Three|29 pages

Developing a day unit for families

chapter Four|18 pages

The Family School

chapter Five|15 pages

Applications of the Marlborough model

chapter |5 pages

Epilogue

Steps towards multiple family group therapy