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Family therapy (also referred to as family counseling, family systems therapy, marriage and family therapy, couple and family therapy) is a branch of psychotherapy focused on families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.
Structural family therapy (SFT) is a method of psychotherapy developed by Salvador Minuchin which addresses problems in functioning within a family. Structural family therapists strive to enter, or "join", the family system in therapy in order to understand the invisible rules which govern its functioning, map the relationships between family members or between subsets of the family, and ...
Donald deAvila Jackson, M.D. (January 2, 1920 – January 29, 1968) was an American psychiatrist best known for his pioneering work in family therapy. From 1947 to 1951, he studied under Harry Stack Sullivan. [1]
Cultural family therapy (CFT) is a synthesis of family therapy and transcultural psychiatry. [3] [4]CFT is an interweaving of "stories" (family predicaments expressed in narratives of family life) and "tools" (clinical methods for working with and making sense of these stories in cultural context).
The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. [1] [2] It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities, each with its own unique viewpoint and qualities.
It covers research related to family therapy, spanning subfields of psychology such as clinical psychology, therapy, counselling, and psychoanalysis. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.066, ranking it 31st out of 46 journals in the category "Family Studies" [ 1 ] and 99th out of 127 journals in ...
Lynn Hoffman (Paris, France, September 10, 1924; December 21, 2017) [1] [2] was an American social worker, family therapist, author and historian of family therapy.Her mother, Ruth Reeves was a painter, Art Deco textile designer and an originator of the American Index of Design.
Richard C. Schwartz (born 14 September 1949), [1] is an American systemic family therapist, academic, author, and creator of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) branch of therapy. [2] [3] He developed his foundational work with IFS in the 1980s [4] after noticing that his clients were made up of many different pieces of "parts" of their "Self."