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This paper describes five sessions (the total treatment contact) with a mother and her 15-year-old daughter who was suddenly refusing to attend school. They were a very insecure and inhibited mother and daughter in an intensely dependent relationship involving much ambivalence on both sides. Not only was the immediate school problem resolved, but the clients developed some awareness of their own underlying conflicts related to the developmental phase of the family and of how their ways of handling these conflicts affected one another.
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Bonnefil, M.C. Therapist, save my child: A family crisis case. Clin Soc Work J 7, 6–14 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00761355
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