Writing primarily for therapists, but also hoping families themselves might find the information useful, Keith (psychiatry, family medicine, and pediatrics, State U. of New York-Syracuse), Gary M. Connell (counseling and human development, Edinboro U., Pennsylvania) and Linda C. Connell (behavioral science, Saint Vincent Health Center, Erie, Pennsylvania) describe the relationship between health and defiance in families, and how family therapy can repair relationships disturbed by defiance. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Defiance in the Family follows the treatment of childhood and adolescent defiance through therapy, from intake to termination. The authors take a unique view of defiance as an expression of a child's worry for a family that is not working properly and as the child's means of protecting the inner self in the face of family turmoil.