Treatment Planning for Multiproblem Families

Abstract

Poor success in dealing with multiproblem families over the years has had little effect on agency methods of devising and executing reasonable treatment programs. Although intervention by many workers in the affairs of one troubled family is known to be ineffectual and sometimes harmful, we continue to split the family into many categorized problems and assign a different worker to each category as crises occur. It is not surprising that youngsters in these families perpetuate the problems.