ABSTRACT
Behavioural family therapists expect poor compliance with all aspects of the training programme from all participants. Training will be of limited benefit where key household members do not participate in the sessions. This includes both the therapist-led sessions and family meetings. Several households have made attendance at sessions a basic requirement for continued residence in the household. This limit-setting approach will be unlikely to prove effective where participants are allowed to break the rules without experiencing the threatened consequences. In addition to ensuring that family meetings focus on goal achievement and problem solving, the completion of practice assignments of specific communication skills by all participants is the cornerstone of the Behavioural Family Therapy approach (BFT). BFT aims to prevent the expression of all negative emotions.
