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Angela had been given the responsibility to make that decision effective diabecon 60caps, since her husband expressed feeling like such a "complete failure" with Couples with Adolescents 65 "little to offer to the family. Her financial responsibilities, marital conflict, and now her son’s truancy likely overwhelmed her. ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION We chose this case because of the overwhelming number of issues and symptoms presented during the first therapy session. Such cases often are considered to be at very high risk for dropout or failure given the histo- ries (plural) of physical/sexual abuse, drug abuse, and ongoing (but not particularly effective) prescribed medication treatment. Other factors often cited include the family’s minority status in a dominant culture, the economic issues surrounding them almost like a blanket of oppression, and their isolation from extended-family resources. As noted above, it may be difficult to generalize from this couple to another couple who would be considered mainstream if not privileged, who have considerable resources and no history of abuse, and yet who also experience emotional and behavioral problems with their child (truancy and depression), and who are considering divorce. However, processes that can be generalized are the essential features of intervention such as respectfulness and matching, the integration of a strength and a risk factor perspective, goals and techniques that are phase-based, and the emphasis on a balanced al- liance with all family members, which involves an unwillingness on the part of the therapist to take sides or to force an agenda on this family or a particular family member. It also should be noted that if this case had been seen by the second author (an older Anglo male) rather than the sen- ior author (a younger bilingual female), the dynamics of change would re- flect the very same core factors, but they would have to unfold in a very different manner, which would be totally contingent (Sexton & Alexan- der, 2002) on the family. ESSENTIAL FEATURE 1: RESPECTFULNESS At the outset, we must make a distinction that may seem minor, but which is critical, and perhaps only tangentially captured in the distinc- tion between respect and respectfulness. Asking therapists to respect all clients can be very challenging and even inappropriate, especially in cases (like those we see often) where one or more family members have physically, emotionally, and sometimes even sexually abused other fam- ily members or people outside the family. Some of these family members enter treatment defensive and resistant, and sometimes even offering no sense of remorse or desire to change. However, generating an atmosphere of "re- spectfulness," or working relentlessly to develop respect (Alexander & Sexton, 2002), is both possible and essential if the therapeutic process is to begin in a way that maximizes positive outcomes for all family members. Respectfulness is a complex process, involving an attitude on the part of the therapist, a belief system that all the family members in the room have the potential for dignity and positive growth (no matter how the individ- uals present at the outset), a set of specific therapeutic interventions, and understanding the dynamics of the family sitting with us in the room (whether it be the clinic, the emergency room, the waiting room at the detox center, or in their home). This need for respectfulness of the fam- ily’s right to access community resources and effective interventions is not always foremost in a marital/family therapist clinical practice. Thera- pists need to become multiculturally educated and market themselves as such to begin to offer ethnically diverse families access to effective in- terventions given that one out of six individuals in the United States is foreign-born and that one out of four individuals is the offspring of immi- grants (Falicov, 2003).

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This method helps ent (and absent) in order to meet the criteria for diag- target pain behaviours for intervention cheap diabecon 60caps overnight delivery. Other more specific measures that are often used as part of the clinical assessment process include Diaries the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the One problem associated with self-report measures (and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). The BDI, the clinical interview) is that they are usually con- HADS and GHQ can be used as self-report meas- ducted on one day and require the patient to gener- ures, and all have standardised cut-off points that can alise about the frequency of specific behaviours and be used to indicate a possible clinical (psychiatric) state. A method that allows the clinician to assess the temporal relationship between pain and psycho- The clinical interview can take either a structured or logical factors is a pain diary. With structured interviews, ment of the actual occurrence of target behaviours, in a set number of questions are asked, which assess core addition to helping reduce response bias and error in elements of interest. Information is collated and used to produce the clinician usually has a set of specific objectives (e. For example, ascertain pain behaviours), but also has much greater diaries are used to help ascertain uptime/downtime. Clinical interviews can also focus such diaries on more than one occasion during the specifically on certain areas of interest. Cardiovascular events, such • Emotions, behaviour and cognition should be included as heart rate and blood pressure, are also believed in the evaluation of pain patients. Subjective measures of pain evaluation include self- to reflect changes in underlying emotional states. Interestingly, blood pressure is inversely related to • Objective measures include behavioural observation pain sensitivity, in that hypertensives and normoten- and psychophysiological methods. Other cardiovascular-related indices key information at specified times during the day. One of the most basic methods of measuring pain behaviours is to observe what people actually do. People Key points in pain will often communicate their pain experiences in a non-verbal manner, whether this is through body • Pain is a subjective multidimensional construct. Such non-verbal • Psychological processes, such as emotions, cogni- behaviours are particularly useful for the clinician tion and behaviour, influence the perception and working with groups that are unable to easily verbally experience of pain.

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