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Pastoral counselors, therapists-in-training and clergy are usually introduced to one method of family assessment and treatment, which works better in some situations than in others. Integrative Family Therapy introduces the major schools of family therapy, proposes a tested model that integrates the various approaches, and illustrates how this model functions both for assessing and treating...

2 EXAMINING SEVEN FAMILY THERAPY MODELS Many beginning family therapists and pastoral counselors mistakenly believe that family therapy is similar to individual therapy, except that instead of working with an individual, one works with the entire family unit and gets them to talk to each other. They do not realize that family systems theory is more than a set of group techniques; it is a way of seeing and thinking. Rooted in systems theory, family systems theory insists that the counselor needs to
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