Family Therapy For Homevisiting II

～Manipulation For Home Environment～

Abstract

　When we introduce a therapeutic task to the client family, we sometimes feel sorry it isn’t done successfully as we or the family expects. The atmosphic state of affairs of its family’s own, such as the layouts of furniture or usual location of each person at home, prevents the task from being done well.

　So manipulating for its home environment is thought to have good effect on family dynamism. A case of mother-child adhesion for example, often shows that there are no clear bounderies between mother’s bed or bedroom and her child’s even if her child has grown older, more than ten years old.

　In case we have family interviews at client’s home, these distorted situations are observed visually in the various forms.

　This paper tells how to use the manipulation as the assistance under the family task.