ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates a practitioner’s ability to shift between models is a skill that came about during the second generation. Toward the end of the 20th century, the field of marriage and family therapy evolved in response to postmodern thought, societal changes, creative practitioners, health-care trends, and ongoing research. Integration is the use of a few models in a certain order, such as crisis intervention, creating teamwork, and preventing relapse. Under the broad umbrella of constructivism, family therapists were already challenging the existing mental health establishment. Transgender are those whose gender identity is biopsychosocially opposite their male or female genitalia. Sexual attraction relates to willingness, desire, and arousal regarding a potential sexual partner. Bisexual individuals report feeling sexual attraction to either sex but may be ostracized by straight and gay groups. Practitioners began to look not only at the possibility of alternative perspectives, but also at the interactional process that leads to adopting new perspectives.
