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Family therapy for children and adolescents has its historical roots in the child guidance movement of the 1920s, when it was first recognized that, in addition to the individual treatment of the child, some form of collateral counseling was needed by the parents of children with behavioral and emotional disturbances (Korchin, 1976). Before that time, contact with the families of patients was often avoided, based in large part on the theories of Freud, who emphasized that neurotic conflicts were acquired in the early relationships of children with their parents. Although this theory would appear to imply family treatment, Freud took the position that, because of the family’s pathological influence, the patient must be isolated from the family if improvement was to occur. In addition, early in the development of his ideas, Freud adopted the position that it is not factual events, but the patient’s subjective perceptions, opinions, and fantasies about those events, that is of primary therapeutic importance. Therefore, observing and intervening in overt family interactions were considered not only unimportant but, potentially, counterproductive to the therapeutic process.
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Wells, K.C. (1988). Family Therapy. In: Matson, J.L. (eds) Handbook of Treatment Approaches in Childhood Psychopathology. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0983-3_3
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