METHOD OF DIAGNOSING FAMILY CRISIS AND SUBSEQUENT CORRECTION OF STRUCTURE OF SYSTEM COMMUNICATION OF MEMBERS OF CRISIS FAMILY Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A61B5/16 

FIELD: medicine; psychology.

SUBSTANCE: members of family are interviewed and identified members of family are found. Genogram to represent structure of family system is composed. Members of family are subject to psychotherapeutic treatment. Sort and degree of crisis condition of family are determined additionally. On the basis of interrogation and while taking objective data on functional condition of family members into account, medicinal activities are performed and group psychotherapeutic treatment is carried out during 40 hours for 10 days in total. Group psychotherapeutic treatment is carried out with members of several families being at different degrees of crisis. Number of participants in the group equals to 12 to 14 people. Participants are randomly combined in pairs on the condition that those pairs are composed of different family's members. During first day of activities the stress of non-worked negative emotions is removed by means of corporal-oriented Reich massage during 120 minutes. Since second to the ninth day of treatment, participants work with any member of crisis family in turn. Any member of a family expresses his/her opinion concerning actual crisis situation in his/her family. During group discussion of future models of structure of connections between members of a family, the optimal decision is looked for making changes in structure of system connections in the family. On the tenth day, the final step of group therapeutic treatment, the method of holotropic breathing technique is used for strengthening positive emotional experience. One-hour breathing session is performed followed by discussion on emotional experience. After it emotional condition of members of crisis family is subject analysis. Low degree of anxiety testifies successful completion of treatment.

EFFECT: improved efficiency.

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