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  1. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Patrick S. Tennant

  2. Nick Finnegan Counseling Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Patrick S. Tennant & Paige D. Roane

  3. Houston Family Therapy, Houston, TX, USA

    Paige D. Roane

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  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Jay Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Anthony Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. Iowa City, IA, USA

    David Kearns Ph.D.

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Tennant, P.S., Roane, P.D. (2017). Game Theory in Relation to Family Systems Theory. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_277-1

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