A brief family intervention with an adolescent referred for drug taking

This paper is a description of three family sessions with parents and their 19 year old and 17 year old sons. Their GP had referred the older son to the Family Institute, Cardiff as an "urgent" case saying that the son was taking LSD and cannabis and spending periods of time away from home. The paper argues in favour of a "non-pathological" approach to some adolescents who are on the brink of receiving serious psychiatric labels.