ABSTRACT

The authors, a husband-wife team, have worked as co-therapists and co-counselors for over a decade in a number of settings: private pediatric practice, private marriage counseling practice, in-patient and out-patient psychiatric settings, correctional institutions, community-based correctional facility, family education centers, and marriage education centers. Our basic theoretical framework is Adlerian, but we have borrowed from communication theory, family therapy approaches (especially the Palo Alto group), psychodrama, social group work, and probably many other sources of which we are not consciously aware. We aim for flexibility and creativity, not following any rigid pattern but employing a variety of techniques.