Family Therapy
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- Psychotherapy in our culture has largely been thought of as individual psychotherapy (IT).
- IT is seen as "monadic" by nature, and family therapy (FT) is seen as "dyadic", "triadic", etc.
- FT is not IT with more than one person in the therapy room but a different way of viewing human problems and psychiatric treatment.
- The focus in FT involves shifting the treatment unit away from a unit of one to a more complex system of relationships involving couples, families and sometimes multiple families.
- "There is no such thing as the individual, we are all pieces of a family." (Carl Whitaker, M.D., a pioneering psychiatrist in FT, American Orthopsychiatry Conference, 1979)
- FT was driven by the need to treat more patients efficiently and in the context in which they lived their lives.
- Leading to a paradigm shift in some areas of psychiatric treatment[1]
- The focus in FT involves shifting the treatment unit away from a unit of one to a more complex system of relationships involving couples, families and sometimes multiple families.
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DESCRIPTION
- Psychotherapy in our culture has largely been thought of as individual psychotherapy (IT).
- IT is seen as "monadic" by nature, and family therapy (FT) is seen as "dyadic", "triadic", etc.
- FT is not IT with more than one person in the therapy room but a different way of viewing human problems and psychiatric treatment.
- The focus in FT involves shifting the treatment unit away from a unit of one to a more complex system of relationships involving couples, families and sometimes multiple families.
- "There is no such thing as the individual, we are all pieces of a family." (Carl Whitaker, M.D., a pioneering psychiatrist in FT, American Orthopsychiatry Conference, 1979)
- FT was driven by the need to treat more patients efficiently and in the context in which they lived their lives.
- Leading to a paradigm shift in some areas of psychiatric treatment[1]
- The focus in FT involves shifting the treatment unit away from a unit of one to a more complex system of relationships involving couples, families and sometimes multiple families.
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Last updated: August 7, 2022
Citation
Nestadt, Paul, and Stuart Tiegel. "Family Therapy." Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide, 2022. Johns Hopkins Guide, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787148/all/Family_Therapy.
Nestadt P, Tiegel S. Family Therapy. Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. 2022. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787148/all/Family_Therapy. Accessed January 28, 2023.
Nestadt, P., & Tiegel, S. (2022). Family Therapy. In Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787148/all/Family_Therapy
Nestadt P, Tiegel S. Family Therapy [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. ; 2022. [cited 2023 January 28]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787148/all/Family_Therapy.
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