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	Family therapy Summary
		Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy and family systems therapy, and earlier generally referred to as marriage therapy, is a branch of counseling that works with couples in intimate relationships and families.
		The goal of marriage and family therapy is to improve the quality of familial relationships, to address problems of intimate relationships and interpersonal relationships, of family dysfunction, to support the enhancement of the mental health of individuals in family systems and mediate disputes.
		Family therapy practitioners come from a range of professional backgrounds, and some are specifically qualified or licenced/registered in family therapy (licensing is not required in some jurisdictions and requirements vary from place to place).
	www.bookrags.com /Family_therapy (3236 words)

	Family therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy and family systems therapy, and earlier generally referred to as marriage therapy, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.
		Family therapy practitioners come from a range of professional backgrounds, and some are specifically qualified or licenced/registered in family therapy (licensing is not required in some jurisdictions and requirements vary from place to place).
		Family therapy is really a way of thinking, an epistemology rather than about how many people sit in the room with the therapist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_systems_therapy (720 words)

	Feminist Family Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Family therapy continued to be male-dominated in spite of the increased number of women in the profession.
		The Women’s Project was honored at one of the most prestigious conferences held in the field of family therapy, The Networker, in March of 1977 for their multiple contributions and commitment to issues of gender in the field of family therapy.
		As in the beginning of the family therapy movement, there were the pioneers, their protégés and others who contributed to the development of family therapy.
	www.mindymac.com /Feminist_Family_Therapy.htm (3912 words)

	Family Systems Theory - GenoPro
		The family systems theory is a theory introduced by Dr. Murray Bowen that suggests that individuals cannot be understood in isolation from one another, but rather as a part of their family, as the family is an emotional unit.
		Families are systems of interconnected and interdependent individuals, none of whom can be understood in isolation from the system.
		According to Bowen, a family is a system in which each member had a role to play and rules to respect.
	www.genopro.com /genogram/family-systems-theory (546 words)

	Family Therapy
		Family therapists proposed that psychological problems were best explained in terms of circular, recursive events that focused on the mutually influential and interpersonal context in which they developed.
		These include: acting out familial conflicts with the group instead of discussing them; and instructing individual group members to imagine that the group is their family of origin, with the intention of enabling group members to allow unresolved family and emotional issues to surface and be dealt with in a more objective setting.
		Many family therapists entered the field of family therapy after being trained as social workers, and their family-oriented training model undoubtably shaped the ideas they brought to the developing field of family therapy.
	www.abacon.com /famtherapy/history.html (1378 words)

	Family Systems: Theory and Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The pastoral use of family systems theory and therapeutic techniques is studied through examination of various cases.
		Introduce students to the basic theory and structure of family systems as an approach to the study of the family.
		Students should seek to integrate family systems theory with their emerging biblical theology of the family in a final section of the paper.
	www.erskine.edu /seminary/lowe/family_systems_syllabus.htm (961 words)

	Family Systems Therapy - Cirque Lodge - Sundance Utah
		While family work clinician's focus is on the family unit or system, they do not de-emphasize the importance of dealing with the internal states of the individual.
		Family system's approaches broaden the scope of assessment and interventions to provide best practice methods for their clients.
		Use of family systems therapy allows the professionals in guidance and counseling to gain a greater understanding of their client's life or current problem.
	www.cirquelodge.com /Resources/Articles/FamilySystemsTherapy.php (982 words)

	Bay Area Marriage and Family Counseling, Oakland,San Francisco counselor, Sport coaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Family Systems Theory can be summed up by the phrase "No man is an island." We belong to many systems, which we effect and in turn effect us.
		The child is carrying the symptoms for the family unit; she is the "identified patient." From this perspective, what is needed is not more asthma medication, but marriage counseling for the parents.
		Family Systems Therapy has a positive view of both the individual and the family.
	clearway.org /Family_Systems_Therapy.html (386 words)

	Types of Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Therapy is based on the belief that faulty thinking patterns and belief systems cause psychological problems and that changing our thoughts improves our mental and emotional health and results in changes in behavior.
		Each family member plays a part in the system and family systems therapy helps an individual discover how their family operated, their role in the system, and how it affects them in their current family and in relationships outside the family.
		A therapy which focuses on empowering women and helping women discover how to break free from some of the traditional molds that they may feel are blocking their growth and development.
	www.findingstone.com /services/typesoftherapy.htm (1214 words)

	Family systems therapy
		Family systems therapy is a branch of psychotherapy that treats family problems.
		Family therapists consider the family as a system of interacting members; as such, the problems in the family are seen to arise as an emergent property of the interactions in the system, rather than be ascribed exclusively to the "faults" or psychological problems of individual members.
		Therapy interventions usually focus on these patterns of interaction rather than on analyzing subconscious impulses or early childhood traumas of individuals as a Freudian therapist would do.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/f/fa/family_systems_therapy.html (245 words)

	NGC - NGC Summary
		Family therapy also has appeared to be superior in situations that might in some key respect be similar to substance abuse contexts.
		Family therapy in substance abuse treatment has two main purposes: (1) to use family’s strengths and resources to help find or develop ways to live without substances of abuse, and (2) to ameliorate the impact of chemical dependency on both the identified patient and family.
		In family therapy, the unit of treatment is the family, and/or the individual within the context of the family system.
	www.guideline.gov /summary/summary.aspx?ss=15&doc_id=5886&nbr=3872 (6002 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Family Therapy
		In the early years, theories of family therapy were built on earlier schools of thought such as Kurt Lewin's field theory, which was used extensively in group settings; and Alfred Adler's Child Guidance Movement, which suggested that psychopathology begins in childhood and can be treated with family involvement.
		Previous to the growth of family systems therapy, psychoanalysis was the primary therapeutic model available and it was based in individual analysis and a transferential therapist-client relationship.
		Family systems therapists see the entire family as their patient, and do not identify the most symptomatic person as the person most in need of change.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/family_therapy.html (999 words)

	Family systems therapy after Operation Desert Storm with European-theater veterans Journal of Marital and Family ...
		Family systems therapy was provided both to individuals and conjointly to couples or families during the acute postwar readjustment period The intervention adapted strategies from structural, strategic, intergenerational, and behavioral family therapies in a brief-treatment protocol for systemic stressor resolution.
		Veterans given family system therapy were able to resume functional levels of psychosocial adjustment and reduce the risk of long-term (chronic or delayed) psychosocial impairment.
		All veterans and families requesting FST were given immediate treatment and assessed through a pretest, posttest, and one and a half month follow-up.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3658/is_199804/ai_n8797426 (609 words)

	Family therapy
		Family therapy helps other family members understand their relative's disorder and adjust to the psychological changes that may be occurring in the relative.
		Family therapy tends to be short-term treatment, usually several months in length, with a focus on resolving specific problems such as eating disorders, difficulties with school, or adjustments to bereavement or geographical relocation.
		The concept of the IP is used by family therapists to keep the family from scapegoating the IP or using him or her as a way of avoiding problems in the rest of the system.
	www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/family_therapy.jsp (1714 words)

	Bowen Family Systems Theory, family healing meditations
		Each member of the family has his or her role to play, and there are very powerful pressures on each individual to maintain that role in order to preserve the stability of the family unit.
		Perhaps in your immediate family you are seemingly stuck in the role of the "dumb one." In connecting to your greater family, you may find that you can be seen (and become) something closer to your true self.
		Even if they were abused by a family member--and, thus, it stands to reason that the dynamics of the family must be explored in order to heal--there is wishful thinking on the part of such survivors that they can somehow get away with ignoring this important part of their history.
	homestar.org /bryannan/family.html (1712 words)

	Reading the Family Dance. Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study College Literature - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although pervasive and highly influential among clinical psychotherapists since the 1960s, FST has only recently begun to make inroads among literary critics, answering the call from the scholarly community for a psychology of literature that addresses the inter-psychic rather than the intra-psychic dimensions of literary characters in the context of their fictional worlds.
		Among the foundational concepts of FST is the idea that the family system constitutes a "matrix of identity," meaning that to comprehend an individual, whether empirical or fictional, one must place that individual in the context of interrelatedness that determines personal identity.
		As prominent FST theorist Virginia Satir argues, Freudian psychoanalysis presents sex as the most basic human drive, but in the view of FST theory "the sex drive is continually subordinated to and used for the purpose of enhancing self-esteem and defending against threats of self-esteem" (16).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_200507/ai_n14849759 (1075 words)

	chapter 11 notes
		Family systems therapy is represented by a variety of theories and approaches, all of which focus on the relational aspect of human problems.
		The one central principle agreed upon by family therapy practitioners, regardless of their particular approach, is that the client is connected to living systems.
		Systemic therapists do not deny the importance of the individual in the family system, but they believe an individual’s systemic affiliations and interactions have more power in the person’s life than a single therapist could ever hope to have.
	www.auburn.edu /cspd/fall04/counseling/ch14notes.html (3149 words)

	Family Systems Therapy: Sierra Tucson Healing Family Programs
		Because family members and significant others are considerably affected by addiction and mental health disorders, their involvement is critical to the recovery process.
		Families and their loved one in treatment are given an opportunity to learn about addictions and disorders, discuss issues that have involved them for many years, and heal together.
		Family members are guided to work on their own issues, develop self-care techniques, and learn how to support their loved one.
	www.sierratucson.com /programs_fmlyprgrm.php (729 words)

	Georgetown Family Center -- Audio/Video
		This tape includes such topics as the history of the family movement, the family as an emotional unit, the difference between family systems thinking and individual thinking, and what it means to be a differentiated person.
		Bowen addresses the ways in which the methods of systems therapy have evolved from the theory, emphasizing that a therapist's theoretical perspective determines the way he or she conducts therapy.
		Looking at the practical applications of Bowen theory to extended family work, this tape includes what it means to have a personal relationship with extended family members, what is significant about doing a multigenerational history, and what to do in a family in which parents are dead.
	www.thebowencenter.org /pages/bkvideo.html (1277 words)

	Therapy Search: Therapist Bios - Vicki Rotton, L.M.H.C.
		This type of therapy assumes that the forces of family and culture exert great pressure on individuals and that the roles we play out in our lives are often given to us in our family of origin.
		Internal family systems therapy makes the assumption that we all have a true and authentic self that we are born to live from.
		Therapy involves supporting an individual to identify the true self and teaching her to have a healthy relationship with the protective parts that are constraining her life.
	www.therapysearch.net /Vicki_Rotton_243_.html (1255 words)

	Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Group and Family Therapy, Mediation
		Family of Origin/Family Systems: Family of Origin and Family Systems therapy involves an exploration of the individual's role within their family system along with the inherent values, messages and parenting they received.
		The objective is to both concurrently separate from the historical family and arrive at a positive, expanded concept of self determined by choice.
		While engaging in therapy the client has the opportunity to experience a neutral, caring adult responding to their background, present life circumstances, and current behavior in a new light.
	joanschiff.com /approach.asp (329 words)

	BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™: family psychotherapy
		This term encompasses a variety of methods characterized by focus on the family rather than the individual, usually including more than one family member in the psychotherapy session.
		Exploring the role that cognitive-behavioral strategies may play within contemporary systems approaches, editor Frank M. Dattilio annotates the cases throughout with concise recommendations on how cognitive principles might usefully be called upon at specific points.
		Called the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, this approach is based on the premise that people's subpersonalities interact and change in many of the same ways that families or other human groups do.
	www.behavenet.com /capsules/treatments/famsys/family.htm (971 words)

	Family Systems Therapy: Methodology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Family Systems Therapy is a method of psychotherapy based on the Murray Bowen Theory of Natural Systems.
		The aim of Family Systems Therapy is for family members to understand and accept their individual responsibility in the emotional functioning of the family unit.
		Courses based on Family Systems Theory are appropriate for executives, managers and supervisors, as well as employees.
	www.familysystemstherapy.net /method.shtml (149 words)

	USD: SOLES: Marital & Family Therapy: Course Descriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Students are exposed to the fundamental assumptions and ideas of general systems theory and the basic premises of the various theoretical orientations within the family therapy field.
		Family Theories II covers Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy, Bowen Family Systems Therapy, Contextual Family Therapy, and a variety of Experiential family therapies, including Symbolic-Experiential Therapy, Emotionally-focused Therapy, and the work of Virginia Satir.
		The course examines a wide range of topics important to understanding family functioning such as: the family life cycle, family stress theory, family violence, mate selection, divorce, diversity in family types, cross-cultural comparisons of families, religion and families, children and families, and socioeconomic factors.
	www.sandiego.edu /academics/soles/acadprog/mft/coursedesc.php (1267 words)

	About Internal Family Systems Therapy
		Very often our internal system gets to be organized around emotional pain, and how to manage it.
		If you give up the protective role that a Firefighter offers without releasing any of the pain of the Exiles or renegotiating with the protectors in the system, you would expect to feel more raw, more in pain, and actually be more at risk from being overwhelmed by painful and terrifying emotions.
		Dick was once a conventional family systems therapist, but after he became dissatisfied with that model, he took its systems approach and applied it to individuals.
	www.briantherapy.com /AboutIFS.html (3531 words)

	Program Details - Home-Based Behavioral Systems Family Therapy
		Modifications were made for families in Appalachia and for inner-city African American families.
		This family therapy intervention is supplemented with the Parenting Wisely program (also a Model Program).
		Moderate to lower risk families use the PW program to prevent an escalation of family dysfunction that would lead to needing family therapy.
	casat.unr.edu /bestpractices/view.php?program=48 (675 words)

	Counseling: Individual & Family Counseling - LSS of Minnesota
		Family Systems Therapy is a specialized form of therapy designed to address complex problems or problems that seem resistant to change.
		Family Systems Therapy is often the treatment of choice when families experience problems in managing the changes in their lives.
		Therapy sessions which are often scheduled at longer intervals (3-4 weeks), rather than the more traditional weekly scheduling.
	www.lssmn.org /counseling/family_systems.htm (228 words)

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