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PAGE 16 -PLA1NDEALER - FRIDAY, JUNE 1,1979 BY JOSEPH COOLS staff psychologist . news from the Family Service and Mental Health Clinic of McHenry County. (Editor's note: This is another in a series of especially written articles for McHenry County readers. Joseph Cools is a psychologist on the Family Service and Community Mental Health Center staff. This ar­ ticle is "Coping - Family Therapy".) Often, when a child or adolescent is brought to a therapist by the parents, the parents have identified the fact that the child has a problem that seems to have no relationship to anything that is going on in the family. These parents are usually somewhat surprised when the therapist asks4f it would be possible to include the entire family, parents and brothers and sisters in th6 treatment. Generally, there are three reasons why a therapist will ask the entire family to be a part of the therapy: the first reason is that the therapist may feel that the development of a problem in one family member may have been at least par­ tially in reaction to relation­ ships with others in the family; secondly, the child or adolescent who is acting out 'the "identified patient") may be the one who is reacting, in the most obvious manner, but is often not the only person in the family who is in pain; thirdly, the problem with the child or adolescent can usually be more readily solved with the aid of other interested family members. The main reason for using family therapy is that it works in many cases where individual therapy fails, When indicated, family therapy can not only deal with the problems of the "identified patient", but can make every family member feel better about their relationship with other family members. It is interesting to note that in many cases the child who is acting out, is acting out in response to some difficulties that the parents are having with each other. This is not true in every case, but happens more often than can be ac­ counted for by mere coin­ cidence. It is, therefore, no surprise that one of the main goals of family thereapy is to strengthen the relationship between the parents. Next: Positon in the family. T V COMMENTARY THE best feature of the recent, thorough report of the highly respected Carnegie Commission on public broad­ casting is its proposal that the Corporation For Public Broadcasting be abolished and the-power of president Larry Grossman, of the Publ»c Broadcasting Service, be di- minflshed. CPB and PBS have been fighting for years. Grossman, a former ad exec at NBC, somehow ended up heading PB$. He has antagonized indi­ vidual stations with his plans to concentrate power in a cen­ tral' network type operation (which he would head). THE Carnegie Commission reorganization would replace CPB with a tv. "c red funding sttm-CPB ucing replaced uy a nine-member board, pre^dentially appointed, wor|ing with a fifteen-member group of artists, producers and journalists, to award grants to worthwhile projects throughout the nation. PBS By Bente Christensen would become essentially a distributor. THAT would remove the centralized network approach personified by Grossman, a close friend of many top com­ mercial TV executives. Gross­ man's much-publicized claim to fame thus far is emphasis on documentaries and neH[S, but that began long before he ar­ rived. Currently-ballyhooed PBS triumphs, documentaries on Nazis and (Clansmen, neither of which are any power in the nation, are, in effect, beating dead horses. The re­ cent documentary on homos (why that?) didn't appeal to some. TV'S all-out coverage of the signing of the Egypt- Israeli peace treaty was his­ torically significant. 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McHENRY 385-0882 Employer-Employee Banquet A Success A crowd of students and their employers listen to the speaker. Patty Condon introduces the guest speaker. mmm Iltltwm 111<111 llilNM', Bill Knor displays one of the certificates that each employer will receive. Guest speaker Emil Goellner stresses a point during his talk. "Your opportunities are in your own hands." That was the message Emil Goellner, president of Merl Drugs, delivered to his audience at the Employer -Employee banquet held recently at the Branded Steak House. The dinner was the ninth annual banquet held by McHenry Community High school students in the school's various work programs to honor their employers. The featured speaker, Emil Goellner. is the founder and president of Merl Drugs in Lombard, and has been active in a number of educational and civic organizations including the Lombard Chamber of Commerce and Rotary. Goellner had been a work program student himself during his high school years. Goellner closed his timely and appropriate remarks with a story, the gist of which is something like this: There was once an old wise man who lived in the woods. One day a bunch of "rebellious young rascals" decided to show him that he didn't, indeed, know all the answers. So this rambunctious group plotted to trick him into being wrong. They found a young bird, which the most fearless of them cupped in his hands, and brought to the wise man. They asked him if the bird was alive or dead? If he an­ swered alive, they would crush the bird on the spot. If he an­ swered dead, they would let it fly up in his face. The old man looked at them, and simply smiled and said, "Boys, the fate of that bird is in your hands." IF YOU WRITE IN FIFTY (50) WORDS OR LESS, "WHY YOUR DAD'S THE pREATEST", YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO: RECIPE PRINTERS PUBLISHER M THIS TENT AND 2 SLEEPING BAGS PLUS OTHER PRIZES! Contest open to children ten (10) years of age or under. Please Mom No HeTpT ENTRIES MUST BE RETURNED TO PLAINDEALER OFFICE, 3812 W. ELM ST., McHENRY BY NOON, JUNE 8th All entries will appear in June 13th Plaindealer's Father's Day Supplement. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED FRIDAY, JUNE 15th. (SEE CONTEST BLANK IN THIS PAPER) By Sarah Ann Sheridaa Give a lift to everyday meals by using pimientos. They add a note of color to salads, seafoods, spoon bread, stews, or sandwiches. Pimiento Spoon Bread 2 eggs 1 c milk 1 c water Vi C corn meal Vj c cooked rice 1 t baking powder 2 T butter 2 pimientos drained and minced 1 pimiento drained and cut into rings Beat eggs. Add milk and water. Stir in meal. Add rice, baking powder, butter, minced pimiento. and salt. Put in but­ tered casserole. Bake about 30 to 40 minutes in an oven 400 degrees. Garnish with pi­ miento rings and serve with tomato, cheese or mushroom sauce as a luncheon or supper dish. CARWASHERS WANTED Must hove driver's license and be willing to work. 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