A Macrosystemic Approach to Empowering Adolescents Within the Context of the Family and the Community

Written by:  Larry Laveman, LCSW, BCD; published in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (Vol. 22, No. 1, January 2000).

Abstract - Harmonium, Inc., is a community-based agency that counsels adolescents who are at moderate to high risk of developmental defeat because their behavior either threatens their health or jeopardizes their future.  The Harmonium Project is designed to assist these adolescents through a collaborative strength-based counseling model built on the integrative capacity of the macrosystemic model of psychotherapy (Laveman, 1997).