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Family Therapy as a Theory of Roles and Values

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In the January 1980 AAMFT Newsletter, Dr. Ben Ard provided the first of five interviews with what were called “seminal theorists in the field of marital & family therapy.” Dr. Gerald Zuk was the first of these “seminal theorists” to be interviewed. As part of this interview, Dr. Zuk was asked: “This next question may be presumptuous, but if many years from now people look back on the work of Gerald Zuk in the field of marital and family therapy, what would you most like to be remembered for?” (Ard, 1980, p. 5). Dr. Zuk’s answer identified six concepts, basic to his orientation, as what he regards as his most valuable contributions. He states that these concepts were derived from and “fundamentally grounded in observation in therapy” (Ard, 1980, p. 5). Although Zuk’s ideas initially did emanate from his clinical experience, there is recent evidence from research documenting the presence and efficacy of most of his work (Garrigan & Bambrick, 1975, 1977a,b, 1979).

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Barnard, C.P. (1983). Family Therapy as a Theory of Roles and Values. In: Wolman, B.B., Stricker, G., Framo, J., Newirth, J.W., Rosenbaum, M., Young, H.H. (eds) Handbook of Family and Marital Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4442-1_11

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