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Foundations in MFT

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Traditional Approaches of Therapy   Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Carl Roger's Client Centered Therapy  
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Strict Linear Approach Treatment Ideas   Therapy done in private, kept confidential, isolate client, primary relationship is client-therapist, strict cause and effect  
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epistemology   how we know what we know  
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reductionism   attempt to understand behavior in simple units, the whole IS the sum of its parts  
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parsimony   complex things should be explained in the simplest way possible  
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reductionism   asks why?, linear cause and effect, subject/object dualism, either/or dichotomies, value free science, deterministic/reactive, laws of external reality, historical focus, individualistic  
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paradigm shift   whole is greater than the sum of its parts, dynamic causation, not mechanical determinism process rather than static reality  
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General Systems Theory   no absolutes or certainties reality and truth are circular pragmatic truth  
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pragmatic truth   the truth that is most useful in connecting certain events and behavior in such a way as to enable the family to make constructive changes  
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GST Paradigm Descriptors   asks what, reciprocal causality, subjective/perceptual, holistic, dialectical, relational, contextual, inclusive of individual psychologies  
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy contributions   GST author, a system is more than the sum of its parts, emphasis on interaction within and among systems, human systems as ecological organisms vs. mechanistic, equifinality,  
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equifinality   GST concept many beginnings can lead to the same end  
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GST 3 Core Assumptions   Potential for unifying science (isomorphism) - systems work similarly Human systems are self reflexive Systems must be understood as a whole  
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isomorphism   GST concept the way this system works is similar to the way that system works  
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nonsummativity   the whole is greater than the sum of its parts  
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systemic concepts   interpersonal context circular causality content vs. process complementarity hierarchy boundaries family structure equifinality  
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interpersonal context   GST concept all behavior makes sense in context  
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complementarity   GST concept interaction is mutually influencing  
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circular causality   GST concept sequence of cause and effect that leads back to first cause and either confirms or changes that first cause The overal system maintains its shape as the pattern of linkage between the parts change  
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content   GST concept language of linear causality "anything a monkey could comment on" who what when where  
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process   language of circular causality how people talk how things appear how things make sense  
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hierarchy   GST concept layering of systems of increasing complexity, i.e. subsystems, systems, suprasystems  
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boundaries   GST concept defines membership in a system represents point of contact between system and other systems vary in degree of permeability, can be rigid or diffused, open or closed  
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family structure   roles, rules, hierarchy, boundaries  
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General critiques of GST   too vague and general, difficult to operatioalize, evaluate empirically subtle assumption that all parts of a system have equal power  
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Feminist critique of GST   GST assumes everyone has equal power circular causality holds each member responsible in abusive relationship women as nurturers, labeled enmeshment, pathologized it  
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Norbert Weiner   developed cybernetics  
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cybernetics   field of control and communication whether in machine or animal  
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cybernetics   presented at 1942 Macy Conferences  
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Palo Alto Group   studied family as cybernetic system, communication in families, family as homeostatic system, developed double-bind theory, opposed reductionism,  
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feedback loop   core of cybernetics  
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feedback loop   information needed to maintain a steady state or a pre-programmed goal - change AND stability  
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negative feedback loop   reduces deviation or change is a stop mechanism deviation dampening constancy loops or deviation-attenuating loops morphostatic feedback  
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positive feedback loop   change/deviation amplifying used to promote change variety loops morphogenic feedback, change seeking  
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feedback and control   path of communication in a system  
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feedback   either positive or negative based on the effect it has on the system, not its content  
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first order change   change that occurs within the system which itself stays the same  
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second order change   occurrence that changes the system itself changes in the body of rules governing the structure change in the process  
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Communications Theory   basic premises are fundamentals of MFT models  
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Mental Research Institute Bateman Group   Beginnings of Communications Theory at:  
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metacommunication   communicating about communicating  
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Syntax, semantics, pragmatics   three ways to study communication  
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syntax   the pattern of words, way words are put together, words that are chosen  
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semantics   clarifies what words mean  
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pragmatics   what happens as a result of communication behavioral effects or consequences of communication  
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Communications Theory   redundant patterns of communication and interaction within and between systems....what theory?  
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communications theory   patterns are seen as comprising the rules of the system and may be seen by outside party....what theory?  
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communications theory   emphasis on here and now....what theory  
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Communications theory axiom   all behavior is communication at some level - you cannot not communicate  
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communications theory axiom   communication may occur simultaneously at many levels verbal, nonverbal  
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verbal communication   what is said  
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nonverbal communication   gesture, body language, tone of voice, posture, intensity  
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communications theory axiom   every communication has two aspects: report and command  
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report (digital)   verbal, the information conveyed, words that are spoken  
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command (analog)   nonverbal cues, defines nature of relationship, contextual cues  
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command patterns   used for stabilizing relationships, defining family rules, preserving homeostatic balance  
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interactive patterns of relationship   symmetrical, complimentary, parallel  
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symmetrical relationship   relationship based on equality, patterned one-upmanship, equal escalation  
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complimentary relationship   relationship based on differences that fit together, maximizes differences  
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parallel relationship   relationship where each person alternates complimentary positions and includes combination of symmetrical and complimentary behaviors, higher logical order relationship, more sophisticated  
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communicate   problems are manifested and supported by the ways we  
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Three communications theory principles   one cannot not communicate one cannot not behave the meaning of a given behavior is not the true meaning of the behavior - it is the personal truth for the person who has given it a particular meaning  
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jay haley   idea of struggle for power and control attributed to...  
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struggle for power and control   in every relationship this is inherent in the messages the sender and receiver exchange  
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struggle for power and control   who decides who decides who defines the relationship answers revealed in discussions about roles in mundane activities  
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paradoxical communication   receiver gets confused when contradictions occur between what is said and what is expressed in tone or gesture, what you say and how you say it don't match  
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double bind   destructive form of paradoxical communication  
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double bind   two conflicting levels of messages  
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Nathan Ackerman   first to initiate discussion on family therapy at American Orthopsychiatric Association meeting in 1955  
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Nathan Ackeraman   after WWII, began experimenting with seeing patients and families in a group  
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Nathan Ackerman   was chief psychologist at Meninger clinic  
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Abraham and Hannah Stone   opened marriage clinic in 1930  
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paul popenoe   1930s biologist opened clinic in los angeles first to introduce "marriage counseling"  
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emily mudd   1932 established marriage council of philadelphia  
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emily mudd   first female professor at U. Penn medical school used preventive approach to address poverty and birth control issues using counseling techniques 1932  
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Abraham and Hannah Stone, Paul Popenoe, Emily Mudd   helped establish American Association of Marriage Counselors in 1941  
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Ernest Groves   pioneer in family life education Groves Conferences of Conservation of Marriage and FAmily 1934 -  
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Gregory Bateson   anthropologist, 1940's, set out to translate psychiatry practice into human communication theory  
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John Bowlby   1949, psychiatrist at Tavistock Child Guidance Clinic invites family into failing case with boy, adapted group therapy techniques  
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Nathan Ackerman   child psychiatrist 1937 was chief psychiatrist at Child Guidance Clinic, Menninger Clinic  
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Nathan Ackerman   1940's: began to experiment with therapist seeing both child and parent, rather than psychiatrist seeing patient and social worker seeing mother  
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Nathan Ackerman   1950: wrote "Family Diagnosis: an approach to the pre-school child" one of founding documents of profession  
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Nathan Ackerman   1957: opened Family Mental Health Clinic at Jewish Family Services in New York, later (1960) the Family Institute  
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Nathan Ackerman   1961: published: The Psychodynamics of Family Life  
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Nathan Ackerman   1961: Co-founded journal with Don Jackson "Family Process"  
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nathan Ackerman   Important influence on Salvador Minuchin  
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Carl Whitaker   Psychiatris, irreverent, whimsical, developed "therapy of the absurd"  
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Carl Whitaker   1946: became chief of psychiatry at emory university  
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Carl Whitaker   invented co-therapy  
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carl whitaker   1965: moved to dept. of psychiatry at U. of Wisconsin Med. School  
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Murray Bowen   psychiatrist 1951: on staff at menninger clinic, invited mothers to live in hospital with schizophrenic child  
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Murray Bowen   1954: joined Lyman Wynne at NIMH  
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Murray Bowen   1959: leaves NIMH for Georgetown, directs own training program  
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Murray Bowen   developed own "Natural/?? Family Systems Theory"  
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Murray Bowen   Important concepts: differentiation of self, triangulation, emotional reactivity, undifferentiated family ego mass attributed to:  
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Lyman Wynne   harvard medical degree in 1948 ph.d. in social relations in 1952  
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Lyman Wynne   focus of work on how pathological thinking is transmitted in families  
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Lyman Wynne   1952: join National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)  
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Lyman Wynne   1972: left NIMH and became professor and chair of psychiatry dept at U. of Rochester  
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Lyman Wynne   Important concepts: pseudomutuality, pseudohostility, rubber fences, communication deviance attributed to:  
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John Bell   professor of psychology at Clark University in MA  
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John Bell   had conversation with John Sutherland of Tavistock Clinic about John Bowlby's work with family - misunderstood and began treating families  
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John Bell   many consider "father of family therapy" since he was one of earliest figures to hold family sessions  
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John Bell   1961: wrote "Family Group Therapy" - considered one of founding documents of the profession  
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Theodore Lidz   psychoanalytically trained 1940s: became interested in working with schizophrenic families while on staff at John Hopkins University  
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Theodore Lidz   1951: moved to yale university, started studying a small group of schizophrenics and their families  
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Theodore Lidz   first to explore the role of fathers in the process of schizogenesis  
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Theodore Lidz   important concepts: marital schizm, marital skew  
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Theodore Lidz   emphasized the notion of role reciprocity  
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Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy   Psychoanalyst 1957: founded Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (EPPI)  
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Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy   1973: wrote "Invisible Loyalties"  
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Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (EPPI)   one of chief centers of research and training in the family therapy movement  
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Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy   one of first to introduce concepts of ethical responsibility and accountability to therapy  
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James Framo   collaborated with Nagy at EPPI  
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James Framo   Object Relations Therapist considering relationship of intrapsychic with inter-relational  
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Christian Midelfort   staff psychiatrist in LaCrosse, Wisconsin lecturer at Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN  
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Christian Midelfort   considered founding figure with little acclaim  
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Christian Midelfort   1962: wrote: "The Family in Psychotherapy"  
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Christian Midelfort   emphasis on importance of religious and ethnic factors in family healing  
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Palo Alto Group   Gregory Bateson, Jay Haley, John Weakland, William Fry  
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Palo Alto Group   1953: Bateson research team to investigate communication and conflict in human and animal behavior  
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Don Jackson   1954: joined Bateson Research Group in Palo Alto to focus on schizophrenic communication  
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John Weakland   joined bateson group to aid mathematical understanding of Macy conference, left chemistry for anthropology, double bind theory  
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Don Jackson   clinical supervisor of palo alto group  
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Don Jackson   developed idea of homeostasis  
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Don Jackson   had part in developing double bind theory  
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Richard Fisch   part of MRI Research, opened Brief Therapy Institute at MRI in 1959  
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Richard Fisch   launched what would be constructivist, postmodernism ideas  
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Paul Watzlawick   Joined MRI group, major contribution in communication theory and constructivism  
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Virginia Satir   woman of Palo Alto group, social worker  
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Virginia Satir   known for popularizing the family therapy movement, experiential, brought attention to warmth and feeling  
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Salvador Minuchin   born and raised in argentina  
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Salvador Minuchin   worked with kids who survived holocaust  
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Salvador Minuchin   influenced by training with Nathan Ackerman  
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Salvador Minuchin   1960s began career as family therapist, began working with juvenile delinquents at Wiltwyck School for Boys in New York  
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Wyltwick School for Boys   where Salvador Minuchin began focusing on low-income and ghetto families and had to develop techniques appropriate to population  
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Salvador Minuchin   1967: wrote: "Families of the Slums"  
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Salvador Minuchin   1965: became director of Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic  
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Salvador Minuchin   developed unique program training members of local black community as paraprofessional family therapists  
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Salvador Minuchin   with Braulio Montalvo, Bernice Rosman and Jay Haley made Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic a great center of family therapy movement  
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Salvador Minuchin   developed Structural Family Therapy  
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Salvador Minuchin   1974: wrote: Families and Family Therapy - one of most popular family therapy books ever written  
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Joining and Restructuring   two general strategies of Structural Family Therapy  
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Don Jackson   Founder of Mental Research Institute  
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MRI   Brief Therapy Center developed here  
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Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes   founders of The Family Therapy Institute of Washington D.C.  
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Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Luigi Boscolo, Gianfranco Cecchin, Guiliana Prata   persons involved in Milan family therapy  
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Mara Selvini Palazzoli   utilized one way mirrors  
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Boscolo and Cecchin   founders of Family Therapy Institute of Milan  
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Harold Goolishen   at Galveston Family Institute, used postmodern collaborative approach, collaborative language approach  
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Steve deShazer and In-Soo Kim Berg   founders of Brief Family Therapy Center  
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Michael White   at Dulwich Center in Adelaide, Australia  
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Michael White   used Narrative Therapy Approach  
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Narrative Therapy Approach   Externalizing the problem and reauthorizing dominant stories are techniques used in what therapy approach  
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Peggy Papp, Olga Silverstein, Betty Carter Marianna Waters   members of the Women's Project  
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Peggy Papp   worked to challenge the blame on women (mothers) for mental and relational illness  
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Olga Silverstein   primary work was on mother-son relationship  
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Lynn Hoffman   social worker, studied with MRI, worked with Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, worked at Ackerman Institute, with Peggy Papp and Olga Silverstein, influenced by Milan group  
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Lynn Hoffman   involved with Reflecting Team approach  
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