Family systems theory

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Family therapy

Approaches

Adlerian family therapy CBT Conjoint family therapy Contextual therapy Emotionally Focused Therapy Experential family therapy Family systems therapy Feminist family therapy Medical family therapy Milan systems approach MRI brief therapy Multisystemic therapy Object relations Postmodern Collaborative Therapy Psychoeducation with families Psychoanalytic family therapy Solution focused family therapy Strategic family therapy Structural family therapy Systems family therapy

Notable therapists

Alfred Adler Nathan Ackerman Tom Andersen Harlene Anderson Harry J Aponte Gregory Bateson (1904 – 1980) Ivan Böszörményi-Nagy Murray Bowen Steve de Shazer Milton H. Erickson Richard Fisch James Framo Harry Goolishian John Gottman Robert-Jay Green Jay Haley Lynn Hoffman Don D. Jackson Sue Johnson Bradford Keeney Walter Kempler Cloe Madanes Salvador Minuchin Braulio Montalvo Virginia Satir Mara Selvini Palazzoli Ross Speck Robin Skynner Paul Watzlawick John Weakland Carl Whitaker Michael White Lyman Wynne

Misc

Couples therapy Family Family structure History of family therapy Parenting Parenting styles Parent child communication Person-of-the-Therapist

Family systems theory or family systems model is an approach that views the family as a system and adapts elements of systems theory as the basis of an approach to family therapy known as family systems therapy.

History

By the mid-1960s, a number of distinct schools of family therapy had emerged. From those groups that were most strongly influenced by cybernetics and systems theory, there came MRI Brief Therapy, and slightly later, strategic therapy, Salvador Minuchin's Structural Family Therapy and the Milan systems model of Mara Selvini Palazzoli and his team.

See also

• Family preservation
• Family relations
• Family structure

References

Family structure