DMFT-7501: Foundations of Relational/Systemic Intervention

Framo, J. L. (1996). A personal retrospective of the family therapy field: Then and now. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 22(3), 289-316.
This article is a good historical review of the field.

Carr, A. (2019). Couple therapy, family therapy and systemic interventions for adult-focused problems: The current evidence base. The Journal of Family Therapy, 41(4), 492-536.
This article reviews the literature on the efficacy of systemic interventions as related to adult issues. It provides numerous options for systemic interventions for many different issues.

Lebow, J. L. (2019). Current issues in the practice of integrative couple and family therapy. Family Process, 58(3), 610-628.
The article is an overview of issues in integration for couple and family therapy. It summarizes the development of integration, the strengths, and possible drawbacks.

Carr, A. (2019). Family therapy and systemic interventions for child-focused problems: The current evidence base.Journal of Family Therapy, 41(2), 153-213.
This article reviews the literature on the efficacy of systemic interventions as related to child issues. Numerous options for systemic interventions for different issues are reviewed.

Von Schlippe, A., & Schweitzer, J. (2015). Systemic interventions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Read The Value of Systemic Intervention and Chapter 1: The Start: Two Basic Premises.

Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. (2021). About marriage and family therapists. AAMFT.
This resource is a great overview of the profession of MFT.

Minuchin, P. (1985). Families and individual development: Provocations from the field of family therapy. Child Development, 56(2), 289-303.
This article provides an overview of systems theory and its development as well as some comparisons of family versus individual psychology practice.

Falicov, C. J. (1998). From rigid borderlines to fertile borderlands: Reconfiguring family therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 24(2), 157-163.
The article is a discussion by Falicov that argues the case for including reflective practices in the narrative approaches in counseling.

Hoffman, L. (1998). Setting aside the model in family therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 24(2), 145-156.
An article where Hoffman discusses the importance of several narrative tools and aspects that can be used in therapy. Some of these include reflective conversation, folding over, the attending community, and what it might look like to set aside models.