al-Krenawi A
Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Fam Process. 1998 Spring;37(1):65-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1998.00065.x.
This article examines therapy with a Bedouin-Arab family from the Negev, Israel, which consisted of 69 members: a husband, 8 wives, and 60 siblings. The husband, who lived with his youngest wife, paid little attention to his other wives and their children. There was considerable competition, hostility, and jealousy among the wives; no communication between the co-wives or the children of different wives; and a variety of behavioral and psychosocial problems among family members. I describe the varied strategies and systems involved in family therapy. The main strategies were to establish good relationships among the co-wives and to build a coalition among them, including the youngest wife, through group therapy in a medical clinic. A secondary strategy was using the children's problems to get the husband involved in the therapy. With improvement of the children's functioning, and with reduced intra-subfamily hostility, the husband's relationships with his children and wives improved.
本文探讨了对来自以色列内盖夫地区的一个贝都因-阿拉伯家庭的治疗，该家庭由69名成员组成：一名丈夫、8名妻子和60名兄弟姐妹。与最年轻妻子生活在一起的丈夫很少关注其他妻子及其子女。妻子之间存在相当大的竞争、敌意和嫉妒；不同妻子的妻子之间或子女之间没有交流；家庭成员中存在各种行为和心理社会问题。我描述了家庭治疗中涉及的各种策略和系统。主要策略是在医学诊所通过团体治疗在共同妻子之间建立良好关系，并在她们之间，包括最年轻的妻子，建立联盟。次要策略是利用孩子的问题让丈夫参与治疗。随着孩子功能的改善以及家庭内部敌意的减少，丈夫与子女和妻子的关系得到了改善。
