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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...

building in communications, or helping people understand and change their interactional dance. Those from the strategic school of interactional family therapy take a different tack. They suggest that although straightforward interventions may work, more often than not they fail. Strategic therapists argue that straightforward advice too often simply resembles the sort of advice that couples give each other and receive from well-meaning family and friends, and such advice rarely produces change. To
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