Family Therapy Originators: Gregory Bateson, Salvador Minuchin, Jay Haley, Murray Bowen, Nathan Ackerman, Virginia Satir, Ivan Boszmormenyi-Nagy, John Elderkin Bell, Philip Guerin, Don Jackson, Carl Whitaker, Betty Carter, Michael White, James Framo, Jay Haley, Walter Kempler, Milton Erickson, Richard C. Schwartz
Overview: "Family therapy is a mode of psychotherapy that involves all the members of a nuclear or extended family. It may be conducted by a pair or team of therapists. Although some forms of family therapy are based on behavioral or psychodynamic principles, the most widespread form is based on family systems theory. This approach regards the family, as a whole, as the unit of treatment, and emphasizes such factors as relationships and communication patterns rather than traits or symptoms in individual members. Family therapy derived its theoretical foundations from the emergent, cross disciplinary body of knowledge called systems theory. Systems theory proposes that all phenomena are interconnected and cannot be known without reference to their context. Simply put, there is nothing—no person, no thing—that stands apart from its networks of relationships. Individuals cannot be understood without reference to their past and present relationships, especially their families." ~Excerpt from
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