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Multiple Impact Family Therapy

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Name of Model

Multiple Impact Therapy (MIT)

Introduction

In the late 1950s, the Youth Development Project was a specialized service for adolescents and their families, offered by the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas (Ritchie 1960). Families seeking treatment came from a considerable distance – “anywhere from 50 to 450 miles” (Ritchie 1960, p. 16) – and this presented special difficulties, as a regular weekly meeting over several months was not an option. The Multiple Impact Team (MIT) model started as a way to solve this problem of distance, but developed into a systemic intervention (MacGregor 1962; Ritchie 1960; MacGregor et al. 1964).

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Robert MacGregor, a clinical psychologist, and Agnes Ritchie, a clinical social worker, headed a team of clinicians, consisting also of clinical psychology interns, medical students, nursing students, and psychiatric residents in training (MacGregor 1962; Ritchie 1960). Alberto Serrano was also...

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  1. Nova Southeastern University Fort, Lauderdale, FL, USA

    Anne Hearon Rambo & Tommie V. Boyd

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  1. Anne Hearon Rambo
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Correspondence to Anne Hearon Rambo .

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  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Jay L. Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Anthony L. Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

    Eli Karam

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Rambo, A.H., Boyd, T.V. (2019). Multiple Impact Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_329

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