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Smith, Harriet; Moller, Naomi P. and Vossler, Andreas
(2017).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2016.1164296
Abstract
A number of current developments in the field potentially provide opportunities for preventative relationship and family interventions to be integrated into primary care. In this context, it is important to understand what family counselling is and how it might differ from family therapy. Thus, this paper investigates how the service of one low-intensity family counselling provider, Relate, is conceptualised and practised by counsellors on the ground. Questions about practice were posed to five focus groups of family counsellors and these were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings suggest that Relate family counselling is seen as ‘family therapy lite’, with a flexible, eclectic and integrative use of concepts and techniques within a systemic framework. Implications of this conceptualisation of family counselling for training, practice and research are discussed.
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- Item ORO ID
- 48403
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1469-3534
- Keywords
- family counselling; family therapy; family interventions; Any Qualified Provider; Relate
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling > Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Health and Wellbeing PRA (Priority Research Area)
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- © 2016 Informa UK Limited
- Depositing User
- Naomi Moller