School Counseling and Family Therapy

～Homevisit and Substitute Two-Room Model～

Abstract

　I introduced family therapy into high school counseling four years ago, and especially against heavy cases such as school refusals, family violences etc, I have excuted home visits. It is very effective for school counseling to have family interviews at the living room of the client family, I attempted about more than 500 homevisits for these 4 years, and over 80 percent of those I have done by myself, and when I need some approaches of two-room (interview room and monitor room), I take the following means named the Substitute Two-room Mode, which are mainly for the purpose of escaping family resistance, counter transference, or intrafamilial transference.

1. Hidden Co-therapists or Imagenary Co-therapists 2. A Substitute Monitor-Room 3. Intermission and Change the Course 4. Provisional Co-therapists (in part) 5. Personal or Subsystem Short-interviews.