Abstract
Virginia Satir, one of the most influential of the early family therapists, reached millions of people throughout the world through her writings, videotapes, workshops, and personal appearances. Yet the Satir model has never been fully accepted by the mainstream of the family therapy movement. This article introduces Satir and her work, and outlines the conceptual foundations of the model, organized in terms of presuppositions, basic constructs, therapeutic process, and methods, and offers some reasons for this lack of acceptance. The relation of theory to method and practice is the least developed aspect of the Satir model.
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Innes, M. Satir's Therapeutically Oriented Educational Process: A Critical Appreciation. Contemporary Family Therapy 24, 35–56 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014369504991
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