ABSTRACT

Necessity is the mother of intervention. Needed was a way to “treat” the client's stories with reverence and respect—but within a brief time period. And ways were needed, too, for the client to continue het/his own self-attending process for when the “brief time period” was to be over. Thus emerged Necessity's Way, grounded in Bowen's family systems theory (Bowen, 1978; Friedman, 1991; Kerr and Bowen, 1988) and revolving around the framework of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model (Schwartz, 1995).