Ford J D, Chandler P, Thacker B, Greaves D, Shaw D, Sennhauser S, Schwartz L
VA National Center for PTSD, VT 05009, USA.
J Marital Fam Ther. 1998 Apr;24(2):243-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1998.tb01080.x.
We describe a quasi-experimental trial of time-limited family therapy with veterans and families of veterans who served in Europe, outside the war zone, during Operation Desert Storm (ODS). Family systems therapy was provided both to individuals and conjointly to couples or families during the acute postwar readjustment period. The intervention adapted strategies from structural, strategic, intergenerational, and behavioral family therapies in a brief-treatment protocol for systemic stressor resolution. Veterans given family system therapy were able to resume functional levels of psychosocial adjustment and reduce the risk of long-term (chronic or delayed) psychosocial impairment. Based on these preliminary findings, controlled evaluation of family systems therapy appears warranted for individuals and families exposed to subtraumatic stressors such as wartime non-war-zone military deployment.
我们描述了一项针对在“沙漠风暴行动”（ODS）期间于欧洲战区外服役的退伍军人及其家属进行的限时家庭治疗的准实验性试验。在战后急性调整期，为个人以及夫妻或家庭联合提供了家庭系统治疗。该干预措施在一个简短治疗方案中采用了结构、策略、代际和行为家庭治疗的策略，以解决系统性应激源。接受家庭系统治疗的退伍军人能够恢复心理社会适应的功能水平，并降低长期（慢性或延迟性）心理社会损伤的风险。基于这些初步发现，对于暴露于诸如战时非战区军事部署等亚创伤性应激源的个人和家庭，对家庭系统治疗进行对照评估似乎是有必要的。
