Systems therapy in a day-treatment setting.

This is a paper about doing systems therapy in a day-treatment facility for children identified as severely emotionally disturbed. Children's emotional problems are seen and treated as aspects of family and larger-system problems. An intervention process has been articulated. Information management is a central team task. All staff are team members. While many theories and therapies inform the intervention process, there is no attempt to integrate approaches. Rather, a consultation process serves as a clearinghouse for information management. The managers of the information process think in systems terms and that thinking is "meta" to other positions. In this paper the thinking, the organization of the workplace, and some of the processes which people experience are explored.