ABSTRACT
This epilogue discusses an overview of the concepts discussed in this book. The book demonstrates the usefulness of ideas and techniques from the history of family therapy in the everyday practice of working with families. It describes the authors' own respect and deep gratitude to the originators within the field of family therapy. Their gifts to the practice of working with families are still so relevant in the contemporary world where pressures on families continue to grow; where state services seem to shrink year by year; where new interventions and 'third-sector' services seem to spring up constantly; and where the task of raising children, caring for older parents and building caring relationships, remain the challenge that they always have. In such a contemporary world the knowledge that the authors are fundamentally formed by connection and that we are embedded in a web of relationships continues to be a beacon of hope and a lantern of change.
