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It is plausible to suppose that the principles that underlie family systems interventions differ from those that underlie individual interventions in the following relatively straightforward way: Family therapy assumes that the causes of disorder in the identified patient lie primarily within family function, while individual therapy assumes that they lie primarily within the patient. On the other hand, it is also customary to distinguish family from individual therapy according to background psychological theory, so-called “orientation.” Roughly, individual therapy is typically behavioral or cognitive-behavioral, or psychodynamic, or (differently) pharmacological, while family therapy is paradoxical, structural, strategic, or transgenerational, and so on.
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Bolton, D. (1994). Family Systems Interventions. In: Ollendick, T.H., King, N.J., Yule, W. (eds) International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1498-9_21
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