Changes in Family Members During Psychotherapy
研究了20个在墨尔本儿童精神科诊所接受治疗的家庭，发现治疗后患者被所有家庭成员更积极地看待，而兄弟姐妹则被较少积极看待，父母相互评价更积极但被孩子评价更消极。
A socioeconomically diverse set of 20 families presenting themselves for treatment at a child psychiatric clinic in Melbourne were tested at the commencement and end of therapy. Judgements of self and others were obtained on 13 provided constructs. The present report is based on a subsystem offourfamily members consisting of the patient child, a sibling close in age, and both parents. Using the program SERIES, two consensus grids were obtained which were then submitted to principal components analysis using the INGRID program. Changes in judgments over the period of therapy were then assessed by means of the DELTA program. This showed that, after therapy, the patients were being positively perceived by all judges, while their siblings were perceived less positively. However, the parents were rating each other more positively but were judged more negatively by the children. These changes suggest that the therapeutic procedure had effects beyond the resolution of the presenting problem to the whole pattern of intrafamily perceptions.