ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of the major family therapies carried out with family groups—in other words, with at least two family members. It deals with a description of the traditional therapies—psychodynamic, intergenerational, structural and strategic—and then moves on to examine the more recent approaches, such as cognitive behavioural, solution-focused and narrative therapies. The similarities to and differences from Collaborative Family Work are discussed in relation to each approach. Many of the early models of family therapy were influenced by the psychoanalytic tradition. Transgenerational Family Therapy is based on the belief that family dysfunction often has its origins in family history. Strategic Family Therapy has its origins in the 1950s. The Milan Systemic Model was developed in Milan, Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, and has similarities to the Strategic Family Therapy model. Family therapy approaches are commonly broken down into traditional approaches and more approaches.
