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This article studies a family of three in which the presenting problem was the daughter's school phobia but where parents also had phobias. Approaches to individual psychotherapy of phobias are discussed and strategic interaction principles of family treatment are illustrated.
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Judith Sherman, a family therapist, also teaches in the Marital and Family Program at Queens College, City University of New York. Ruth Formanek is on the faculty of Hofstra University and in private practice.
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Sherman, J., Formanek, R. School phobia in a multiphobic family: The family that phobes together.... Child Adolesc Soc Work J 2, 114–124 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00757477
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