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- Title
The Heart of the Matter: A Proposal for Placing the Self of the Therapist at the Center of Family Therapy Research and Training.
- Authors
SIMON, GEORGE M.
- Abstract
As it faces the transition marked by the death or retirement of most of its first-generation founders, the field of family therapy finds itself still unable to answer the critical question of what it is that makes family therapy work. The two dominant approaches to answering this question, the common-factors perspective and the model-specific factors perspective, remain divided at this juncture by a fundamental difference of emphasis between the two. This article proposes a way of integrating the two perspectives via the hypothesis that therapists achieve maximum effectiveness by committing themselves to a family therapy model of proven efficacy whose underlying worldview closely matches their own personal worldview. The implications of this hypothesis for the training of family therapists are examined.
- Subjects
FAMILY psychotherapy; PSYCHOTHERAPIST-patient relations; GROUP psychotherapy; THERAPEUTICS; RESEARCH; TRAINING; HYPOTHESIS
- Publication
Family Process, 2006, Vol 45, Issue 3, p331
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00174.x