Rural multi‐problem families

Abstract

Despite the apparently lower prevalence of notified dysfunction in the country, when severe individual and family psychopathology does exist it often engenders considerable stigmatization and social isolation. The resulting creation of ‘one‐family ghettos’ tends to heighten family dysfunction, producing a new set of specific and frequently more severe difficulties for the therapist. Some case histories are cited to illustrate these problems, and the authors discuss their treatment regime which is domiciliary, focused in the here‐and‐now, active and task‐centred. Copyright © 1981, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved