TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural systemic therapy on the kibbutz
T2 - Community and family-based treatment of anorexia nervosa
AU - Elizur, Yoel
AU - Wahrman, Orli
AU - Freedman, Linda
PY - 1999/12
Y1 - 1999/12
N2 - A cultural approach to therapy assumes that community organization and social ideology can contribute to the genesis and maintenance of mental health problems, and also to their resolution. Cultural systemic therapy applies this insight to all relevant levels of the family-community ecosystem. This is demonstrated by focusing on the treatment of anorexia nervosa in the Israeli kibbutz. We analyze the confluence of cultural characteristics with the anorectic syndrome and then illustrate in a case study of how these characteristics can be employed in therapy. Two particular interventions are delineated to document the powerful impact that can be achieved when this approach is applied to severe and long-term disorders: the establishment and ongoing collaboration with an expanded community/family team and a home confinement program. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.
AB - A cultural approach to therapy assumes that community organization and social ideology can contribute to the genesis and maintenance of mental health problems, and also to their resolution. Cultural systemic therapy applies this insight to all relevant levels of the family-community ecosystem. This is demonstrated by focusing on the treatment of anorexia nervosa in the Israeli kibbutz. We analyze the confluence of cultural characteristics with the anorectic syndrome and then illustrate in a case study of how these characteristics can be employed in therapy. Two particular interventions are delineated to document the powerful impact that can be achieved when this approach is applied to severe and long-term disorders: the establishment and ongoing collaboration with an expanded community/family team and a home confinement program. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0272-7358(99)00006-9
DO - 10.1016/S0272-7358(99)00006-9
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C2 - 10547713
AN - SCOPUS:0033486412
SN - 0272-7358
VL - 19
SP - 969
EP - 985
JO - Clinical Psychology Review
JF - Clinical Psychology Review
IS - 8
ER -