ABSTRACT
Until the 1930s, mental health counselors functioned from an accepted paradigm: conceptualizing and treating dysfunctions they presumed to reside within individuals. All of the preceding theories discussed in this book were founded on this individual-based paradigm, and although most proponents of those theories treated families, they retained a focus on how to ameliorate the symptoms of usually one individual within the family-an “identied patient” or client.
