Problems With Family Therapy in a Community Mental Health Center

A Systemic View of Family Therapy Ethics

“…It can be experienced in the therapist's interactions with the family as they work on changing, and it can be known on analogical, metaphorical, and intuitive levels. Furthermore, the basic problems, of which the secret is an expression, can be observed and acted upon as they are operative in behavioral patterns or transactions isomorphic (23, 34) to that of the secret.…”

“… Family therapists view particular problems nonsystemically (34). Many approaches such as those of Haley (13), the MRI brief therapists (32), most behaviorists (e.g., 24), and others tend to see the symptomatic behavior interactions themselves as the problem in toto.…”