Running head: HALEY

Haley
Candice Ebbesen-Ross
Seton Hall University

 Problem-solving therapy, as practiced by Jay Haley (1987), focused on the problems that families bring to therapy that he defines as "a type of behavior that is part of a sequence of acts among several persons" and the repeated sequences of behavior around the problems (p.2). Haley's (1987) approach differs from many others in that the focus of his therapy is on the social situation or the social units rather than on the individual or an individual's symptomatic behavior. He views symptoms as methods of adaptation
to social situations that can be eliminated or relieved only by changing the social situation. A colleague of Gregory Bateson, he emphasized the therapists' role in participating in the creation of the problem since it is the therapist's task, according to Haley (1987), to help the family define the problem and to design interventions and directives that interrupt and correct the repeated......

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