Contrasting four major family therapy paradigms: implications for family therapy training

Effectiveness of Structural Family Therapy on Therapy Motivation and Family Functioning in Families with Substance Abusers

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of structural family therapy in therapy motivation and family functioning in families with substance abusers. Method: A quasi-experimental research design along with pre-test/post-test and control group was employed for the conduct of this study. The statistical population of this study consisted of all families who presented t...

Dialectical behavior therapy--family skills training.

Over the past three decades, family interventions have become important components of treatment for a number of psychiatric disorders. To date, however, there has been no family treatment designed specifically for borderline personality disorder patients and their relatives. This article describes one short-term family intervention called Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Family Skills Training. Bas...

Functional Family Therapy Clinical Training Manual

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. However, family systems theory was most directly inspired and ignited by the cybern...

Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Implications for Family Therapy Research

Among recent philosophers of science, a trend has emerged that has been described elsewhere as a movement beyond objectivism and relativism, Within the field of family therapy, a parallel movement can be observed that has been promoted by the constructivist implications of contemporary cybernetics. Together, these trends have called into question traditional notions of objectivity. In this pape...