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  2. Carl Whitaker - Wikipedia

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    Carl Whitaker, M.D. Carl Alanson Whitaker (1912–1995) was an American physician and psychotherapy pioneer family therapist. "Carl Whitaker was one of the founding generation of family therapists who broke the rules of the psychotherapeutic orthodoxies of the time, such as that therapy focused on a single client and was totally divorced from family life," said Richard Simon, editor of The ...

  3. Family therapy - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Identified patient - Wikipedia

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    Identified patient (IP) is a clinical term often used in family therapy discussion. It describes one family member in a dysfunctional family who is used as an expression of the family's authentic inner conflicts. As a family system is dynamic, the overt symptoms of an identified patient draw attention away from the "elephants in the living room ...

  5. Emotionally focused therapy - Wikipedia

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    The emotionally focused family therapy (EFFT) of Johnson and her colleagues aims to promote secure bonds among distressed family members. [79] It is a therapy approach consistent with the attachment-oriented experiential–systemic emotionally focused model [71] in three stages: (1) de-escalating negative cycles of interaction that amplify ...

  6. Experience-focused counselling - Wikipedia

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    Experience Focussed Counselling (Experience-Focused Counselling) (EFC) is a normalising, non-pathologizing approach to counselling or psychosocial support/accompaniment. It is aimed particularly, but not exclusively, at persons who may be distressed by experiences such as hearing voices aka auditory hallucinations, visions or other phenomena which are commonly associated with diagnoses such as ...

  7. Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy - Wikipedia

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    Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy (May 19, 1920 – January 28, 2007) was a Hungarian-American psychiatrist and one of the founders of the field of family therapy.Born Iván Nagy, his family name was changed to Böszörményi-Nagy during his childhood.

  8. Adventure therapy - Wikipedia

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    Experiential education is the underlying philosophy. Existing research in adventure therapy reports positive outcomes in improving self-concept and self-esteem, help-seeking behavior, increased mutual aid, pro-social behavior, trust behavior, and more. There is some disagreement about the underlying process that creates these positive outcomes.

  9. Diana Fosha - Wikipedia

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    Fosha was born in Bucharest, but her family emigrated to the United States when she was 12 years old, settling in New York City. [citation needed] She studied psychology at Barnard College and then went on to complete a doctorate in clinical psychology at the City College of New York.