Military Family Counselling,

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the efficacy of family counselling with families of active duty senior non-commissioned officers. It was an application of elements of the Bo-Between Process (Zuk, 1972, 1975) which was based on the finding that this method affected significant improvement in the interpersonal functioning of the family (Garrigan and Bambrick, 1975, 1977a, 1979). This study posed the hypothesis that supervised family counselling performed by military chaplains who underwent a 150 hours training program (Garrigan and Bambrick, 1977b) would affect significant changes in the treatment of families. These changes would be reflected in the following criteria: (1) family adjustment and (2) anxiety levels of the family members. These criteria are congruent with the goals for short term family treatment established by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Family Therapy (1970). Other hypotheses and results concerning the valuing process within the marriage dyad are not reported here.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADP004091

Entities

People

  • J. J. Garrigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Behavioral Disciplines And Activities
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Chaplains
  • Families (Human)
  • Hypotheses
  • Marriage
  • Military Families
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Readers

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