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Family therapy was initially defined as any psychotherapeutic endeavor that explicitly focused on altering the interactions between or among family members, and sought to improve the functioning of the family as a unit, or its subsystems, and/or the functioning of the individual members of the family (Gurman et al. 1986). With time, the working definition of “family” has changed substantially. Family therapy (or, more appropriately, systemic therapy) usually refers to the inclusion in treatment of people who have a significant relationship to the individual concerned, not necessarily bounded by biological, legal, or household designations. The “system” of treatment is now seen as including those who have a part in the concern about the problems and those who could provide resources and support for change, i.e., the system includes the therapy team.

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  1. Acad. Unit of Child & Adolescent Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, 12A Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9NN, UK

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  2. School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Paula Boston MSc

  3. Leeds Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Willow House St Mary’s Hospital, Greenhill Road, Leeds, LS12 3QE, UK

    Dawn Walker

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Cottrell, D., Boston, P., Walker, D. (2004). Family Therapy. In: Remschmidt, H., Belfer, M.L., Goodyer, I. (eds) Facilitating Pathways. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18611-0_13

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