ABSTRACT
Transgenerational or intergenerational family therapies typically are those that attend to dynamics across more than two generations. Although other family therapies, such as structural or strategic, may attend to dynam ics across two generations (e.g., parent-child) in the present, the trans generational therapies are more interested in how the past affects the present. These therapies are not interested in learning about individual pathology. Rather, they are interested in how families, across generations, develop patterns of behaving and responding to stress in ways that prevent healthy development in their members and lead to predictable problems. By understanding how certain patterns develop and changing the way they re solve past issues and interact in their families, troubled individuals and fam ilies can develop new ways of interacting that do not include symptoms.
