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The author reports two experimental uses of full scale network assemblies to intervene with antisocial adolescents. He suggests the importance of covert and overt collusion by adult-subsystems. He proposes that a network assembly exposes the collusive roles of the adults and provides group pressure to undo the collusion.
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Trimble, D.W. Social network intervention with antisocial adolescents. International Journal of Family Therapy 3, 268–274 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00924354
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