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family therapy
(redirected from Family systems therapy)

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family therapy
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(Psychiatry) a form of psychotherapy in which the members of a family participate, with the aim of improving communications between them and the ways in which they relate to each other
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Noun1.family therapy - any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole
group psychotherapy, group therapy - psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist; interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic


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Known also as the Maudsley Approach, this treatment under the behavioural family therapy (BFT) approach is being compared with a more established treatment known as family systems therapy (FST) as part of an ongoing study for kids aged between 12 and 18, at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division and five other centres in the US.
One of the most familiar and focused on the here and now methods of family systems therapy is the Experiential-Humanistic approach.
This handbook for clinicians explains how to combine EMDR with perspectives and techniques from family systems therapy (FST).
 
 
 
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