ABSTRACT
D uring the decade of the brain, a majority of voices that spoke from a mental health perspective were psychiatrists and psychologists who conceived of treatment as individuals seeking psychotherapy (Siegel, 2012; Schore, 2012). As the social brain came to the fore, the importance of family relationships became obvious, but there has been little mention of family intervention, whether the problem was trauma or child symptoms. In the family therapy community, there have been few family therapists who
speak the language of neuroscience. In 1999, the International Family Th erapy Association had informal discussions about why family therapists should care about brain research. Th is was a novel and early attempt to engage family therapists in discussions about neuroscience. With Siegel’s (1999) work about to come forth, family therapists were soon to become brain-informed.
