Expanding the context of family therapy
American Journal of Family TherapyPublished 1 December 1996
Heather J. Hair, Marshall Fine, Bruce A. Ryan
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Abstract
Abstract This paper highlights and organizes ideas regarding family therapy and wider contexts. It briefly reviews the historical underpinnings of a contextual family therapy view, critiques the systems paradigm, and offers an epistemological orientation that includes wider contexts, reviews related clinical practices, and offers recommendations for future theory and practice in family therapy.
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