Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy that involves all the members of a nuclear or extended family. It may be conducted by a pair or team of marriage and family therapists who have come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds including...

Family Therapy The joint treatment of two or more members of the same family in order to change unhealthy patterns of communication and interaction. Family therapy is generally initiated because of psychological or emotional problems experienced by a...

Family therapy is both a theory of family functioning and a treatment technique for troubled couples or families. The theory maintains that the family is a functioning and cohesive system with rules or patterns, which it maintains when faced with...

Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy and family systems therapy, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view these in terms of...

Creative therapy 2: working with parents Cate Oilier, Angela Hobday The British Psychological Society ISBN 1 85433 300 3 This book is aimed at improving relationships and behavior patterns in children and families. Primarily for therapists working with families it will, however,...

Haley, J., & Richeport-Haley, M. (2007). Directive family therapy. New York: Haworth Press, 200 pp., $42.95 hard. Jay Haley died on February 13, 2007, aged 83 years old. This is his final publication, written in collaboration with his partner, Madeleine Richeport-Haley, an anthropologist...

Lindsay Lohan, who checked into rehab after a wild Memorial Day weekend, plans to extend her stay, says her mother, Dina Lohan."She's going to be doing extended care," Dina Lohan said in Tuesday's editions of the Daily News. "It was her choice."The "Mean Girls" actress,...

A Dutch diplomat vilified in the Asian press and accused of having "returned" his South Korean-born daughter seven years after adopting her as an infant, said his family's situation has been misrepresented.In a statement published by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Raymond Poeteray — a Hong...