THERAPEUTIC LETTERS AS AN EFFECTIVE RESOU RCE IN FAMILY-THERAPY - DOCUMENTED BY A CASE OF SCHOOL PHOBIA

The paper presents the case of an 11 year old boy with school phobia. As the case shows, written interventions in the form of letters can be an added and very effective resource of family therapy, that can help to reduce the number of family sessions. Despite the added work of wr iting them they prove to be an advantage for the therapist in many way s. One undoubted asset of written messages is that - unlike the spoken word - they can be kept and re-read at leasure. They also inable the therapist to communicate with family members who avoid the sessions.