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  1. Functional Family Therapy LLC, Seattle, WA, USA

    Michael Robbins & James F. Alexander

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  1. Michael Robbins
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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. Utah State University, 74 Camino don Fidel, 87507, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

    Thorana Nelson Ph.D.

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Robbins, M., Alexander, J.F. (2017). Training Functional Family Therapists. 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_669-1

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