Article: How Good is Family Therapy? A Reassessment.

This carefully and thoughtfully written book, deceptively slender (at least in its paperback version), is a massive review of outcomes research on the effectiveness of family therapy. It begins by reminding the reader, "The new element introduced by the pioneers of the family therapy field was a radically new theory of etiology to interpret and treat psychological, psychiatric, and interpersonal problems . . . the contention was that symptoms were the product of family dysfunction in one way or another, and, therefore, intervention had to be with the family rather than the symptom carrier" (p. 3). It concludes, "Despite serious methodological problems in the outcome ...

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