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Co-Therapy Issues in a Collaborative Setting

In working collaboratively on an inpatient psychiatric unit with patients and families, certain issues arise between co-therapists in their regular family meetings together. These issues, that often develop between the therapists, involve working alliances, trust, personality differences, over-identification with one family member, helplessness in co-therapy, and family meetings as an avoidance of an individual’s problems.

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