Family Problem Solving Scale, developed by Ahmadi et al. (2007), is an assessment scale of the problem solving ability of married couples. The purpose of this study was to develop a Japanese version of Family Problem Solving Scale (FPSS) and examine its reliability and validity. A questionnaire survey of 205 married men and women (91 men and 114 women) was conducted. Exploratory Factor analysis found that FPSS was composed of two factors: “Solution orientation” and “Relationship-maintenance orientation”. The Cronbach's alpha of Solution orientation was .92 and Relationship-maintenance orientation was .79. Moreover, the two factors of FPSS was positively correlated with Relationship satisfaction, FACES III for marital couples and Solution achievement. These results indicated that FPSS had good reliability and validity.

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Brief Therapy (BT) has been shown to be effective in criminal population, but its effectiveness on the treatment of sex offenders was rarely reported. This study focuses on the case of one serious sex offender to examine the potential effectiveness of BT in the treatment. The client was a man in his 60s with multiple incapacitated rape offenses against women in their 20s. Seven inperson therapies were conducted within a prison. Therapies revealed that the client’s sex crime behaviors were motivated by his personal goal of autonomy. Further, running was found to be an alternative behavior through which his goal could be achieved without engaging in sex crimes. This case suggests that a solution-focused BT approach may be effective in the treatment of sex crime offenders. It also demonstrates the importance of clarifying the offender’s personal values and transforming the values to prevent sex offence. Adding treatment protocols to address value transformations may further increase the effectiveness of BT on sex offences.

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Eating disorders are common to young women and have a high mortality. As there is a wide range of variations of the types of eating disorders, psychosocial treatments are provided in conjunction with pharmacotherapy. Especially family therapy is supposed to be effective because supports from the family have significant effects on the patient’s recovery. On the other hand, the patient has gender dysphoria with symptoms similar to disgust for one’s own femininity and also the relationship between these two symptoms is pointed out. In this paper, we report the concluded case where we conducted the interviews of four times in total with the parents of the daughter (IP) with gender dysphoria and previous history of eating disorders by using brief therapy. We are going to consider this case from 5 points: (1) Diagnoses of a vicious circle of the family, (2) Discoveries of the family resources and exceptions, (3) What changed the family system and led to problem solving, (4) Family’s acceptance of gender dysphoria, and (5) Future issues.

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