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Peer reviewedDaly, Kerry – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2003
Argues that there is significant disjunction between the way that families live their lives and the way that professionals theorize about families. Using the metaphor of positive and negative spaces, argues that there are many negative spaces in our theorizing--everyday family activities that take up considerable time, energy, and attention but…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Family Counseling, Family Environment, Family Relationship
Peer reviewedTomm, Karl – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1984
Suggests that the Milan systemic approach probably reflects a significant advance in family therapy and possibly in psychotherapy in general. Provides a historical overview of the development of the approach, an articulation of some major assumptions and background theory, and a brief description of the overall pattern of practice. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Family Counseling, Models
Peer reviewedMacKinnon, Laurie Katherine; Miller, Dusty – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1987
Explores the sociopolitical implications of the new epistemology and the Milan approach, concluding that, while second order cybernetics has greater potential to incorporate a radical social analysis, it has, nevertheless, failed to do so. The application of second order cybernetics in family therapy appears to be constrained by the sociopolitical…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Cybernetics, Epistemology
Peer reviewedTomm, Karl – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1986
Responds to Shields' paper (1986) on the structure of new epistemologies in family therapy. Contends that Shields is being reductionistic in his criticism and obscures the importance of epistemology in family therapy. Also sees problems in Shields' assumptions of objectivity and veracity. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Family Counseling, Foreign Countries, Models
Peer reviewedErickson, Gerald D. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1988
Argues that there are severe and insurmountable problems in attempting to maintain a systemic perspective in family therapy. Advocates decentering family therapy to a more peripheral space within social network perspective. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Family Counseling, Foreign Countries
Download full textGrant, Karen J.; Henley, Arden; Kean, Mary – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2001
Examines the development and implementation of a specific model for providing family counseling to immigrant and refugee families. Discusses the influence of narrative theory in its ability to address the challenges of ethno-cultural diversity and the imbalances of power inherent in cross-cultural counseling. Highlights the dynamics of a…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Counselor Client Relationship, Family Counseling, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKaplan, Marvin L.; Kaplan, Netta R. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1982
Outlines two formulations that generate conceptual perspectives of immediate phenomena: (1) the family system has a time-enduring stability; (2) the family system has an immediate and temporary organization. Integrates systems thinking and Gestalt Therapy while recognizing individual experience as embedded in a self-maintaining system of the…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Experience, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Counseling
