Instructor’s Resource Manual & Test Bank – Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice, 6th Edition – Samuel T. Gladding – ISBN 9780133488906 (Full Chapters 1–16 Covered)

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, TABLE OF CONTENTS

Instructor’s Resource Manual & Test Bank – Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice (6th
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Author: Samuel T. Gladding
ISBN: 9781292058795

PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF FAMILY THERAPY
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Chapter 1: History of Family Therapy: Evolution and Revolution
Chapter 2: The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy
Chapter 3: Types and Functionality of Families
Chapter 4: Working with Single-Parent and Blended Families
Chapter 5: Working with Culturally Diverse Families
Chapter 6: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy
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PART II: THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH FAMILIES

Chapter 7: The Process of Family Therapy
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Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Therapy and Enrichment
Chapter 9: Transgenerational Therapies: Psychodynamic and Bowen Family Therapies
Chapter 10: Experiential Family Therapy
Chapter 11: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies
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Chapter 12: Structural Family Therapy
Chapter 13: Strategic Family Therapies
Chapter 14: Solution-Focused and Narrative Family Therapies

PART III: SPECIAL POPULATIONS AND RESEARCH
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Chapter 15: Working with Substance-Related Disorders, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
Chapter 16: Research and Assessment in Family Therapy
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, Chapter 1
The History of Family Therapy: Evolution and Revolution

Chapter Overview
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Family Therapy Through the Decades

 Prior to the development of marriage and family therapy as a profession, older family members assisted
younger members and adult family members cared for the very young and the very old
 Before 1940
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 focus in the United States was on the individual
 society utilized clergy, lawyers, and doctors for advice and counsel
 prevailing individual theories were psychoanalysis and behaviorism
 Catalysts for the growth of family therapy
 courses in family life education became popular
 establishment of marriage and family training programs (e.g., Marriage Council of Philadelphia in
1932)
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 founding of the National Council on Family Relations in 1938 and the journal Marriage and Family
Living in 1939
 county home extension agents educated and promoted understanding family dynamics
 Family therapy: 1940 to 1949
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 establishment of the American Association of Marriage Counselors in 1942
 first account of concurrent marital counseling published in 1948 by Bela Mittleman
 research on families with a schizophrenic member by Theodore Litz
 National Mental Health Act of 1946 funded research on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental
health disorders
 Family therapy: 1950 to 1959
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 individual leaders dominated the profession
 Nathan Ackerman used a psychoanalytical approach to understand and treat families
 Gregory Bateson studied communication patterns in families with a schizophrenic member and
developed the double bind theory
 double bind theory - two seemingly contradictory messages may exist simultaneously and lead to
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 Mental Research Institute was created by Don Jackson in Palo Alto, CA
 changed problem conceptualization from a pathology oriented individual perspective to a more
relationship based orientation
 brief therapy developed at MRI as one of the first new approaches to family therapy
 Carl Whitaker pushed the conventional envelope by seeing spouses and children in therapy
 set up the first family therapy conference at Sea Island, GA
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 Murray Bowen studied families with schizophrenic members
 held therapy sessions with all family members present
 pioneered theoretical thinking on the influence of previous generations on the mental health of
families
 Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy developed contextual therapy focusing on the healing of human relationships
through trust and commitment
 Family therapy: 1960 to 1969
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 An era of rapid growth in family therapy
 Increase in training centers and academic programs in family therapy
 Jay Haley, expanding on the work of Milton Erikson, developed strategic family therapy
 emphasis on the therapist gaining and maintaining power during treatment
 strategic therapy uses directives to assist clients to go beyond gaining insight
 edited Family Process from 1961 to 1969, providing a means for to keep professions linked and
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 Haley joined with Salvador Minuchin at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic in the late 1960's


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,  Salvador Minuchin developed structural family therapy, based on his work with the Wiltwyck School
for Boys
 utilized minority community members as paraprofessionals to better relate to urban blacks and
Hispanics
 Virginia Satir was the only woman among the family therapy pioneers
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 started seeing family members as a group in the 1950's
 utilized touch and nurtured her clients, emphasizing self-esteem, compassion, and affective
congruence
 published Conjoint Family Therapy in 1964 which stressed the importance of seeing distressed
couples together at the same time
 Virginia Satir was an influential, charismatic leader
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 Carl Whitaker pioneered unconventional, spontaneous, sometimes outrageous appearing approaches,
designed to help families achieve freedom and growth
 Family Process co-founded in 1961 by Don Jackson and Nathan Ackerman
 Nathan Ackerman published Treating the Troubled Family in 1966, advocating closer therapist
involvement with families during treatment, being confrontive, and making covert issues overt
 John Bell developed a family group therapy model, advocated that children 9 years and older should
participate in family therapy, and offered one of the first graduate family therapy courses in the United
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 Murray Bowen discovered that emotional reactivity in many families created undifferentiated family
ego mass (i.e., family members have difficulty maintaining their individual identities and actions)
 Systems theory developed by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy in 1968
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 a way of looking at all parts of an organism simultaneously
 a set of elements standing in interaction with one another
 each element of a system is affected by what happens to any other element
 the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
 became the basis for most family therapy
 less reliance on linear causality (direct cause and effect)
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 increased emphasis on circular causality (events are related through a series of repeating cycles or
loops)
 family therapists seen as a specialists within the field
 first license regulating family therapists granted in California in 1963
 Institutes and training centers
 Mental Research Institute continues its work in training and research
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 Family Therapy Institute of New York established with Nathan Ackerman as director
 Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic developed innovative supervision techniques such as the 'bug in
the ear"
 Family Therapy Institute of Philadelphia founded in 1964, merging the Eastern Pennsylvania
Psychiatric Institute and the Family Institute of Philadelphia
 Boston Family Institute founded by Fred Duhl and David Kantor, focusing on expressive and dramatic
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interventions and originating the family sculpting technique
 Institute for Family Studies in Milan, Italy formed in 1967
 an MRI based model that developed many innovative short term approaches
 Family therapy: 1970 to 1979
 rapid growth in AAMFT based partly on recognition as an accrediting body for marriage and family
training programs
 The American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (AAMFC) changed its name to the
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American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) in 1977
 Journal of Marital and Family Therapy founded by AAMFT in 1974
 American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) founded in 1977 to address clinical, research, and
teaching issues
 AAMFT and AFTA agreed on distinct roles within the profession
 AFTA concentrated on the exchange of ideas among advanced professionals
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 AAMFT focused on accreditation of training programs
 family therapy continued to growth and become more refined outside of psychoanalytical traditions
 Nathan Ackerman died in 1971

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