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This article covers the less frequently chronicled last two decades.
It is intended as an historic and analytic account that supplements
and extends those that have appeared before. Previously, the periods
in the history of family therapy have been divided into four generations
(Kaslow, 1990, Vol. 1 & 2), and amended over time (Kaslow, Kaslow, &
Farber, 1999).
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Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, is Director of the Florida Couples and Family Institute,
128 Windward Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418. She is a Visiting Professor of
Psychology in Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center, a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology, and President of the American Board of
Family Psychology and President of the International Academy of Family Psychologists.
Contemporary Family Therapy 22(4), December 2000
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Here the focus is on the era of generations III and IV in the field and
extended family of family therapists.
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responses and that they are being viewed as cooperating with patient
and therapist to understand and handle the illness more effectively
and to gain control over their own style of expressing emotions and
how to communicate more clearly (Leff & Vaughn, 1985).
Brief therapy. Brief therapy also gained many adherents during
this era, and the leaders promulgating this methodology ascended into
prominence. At the vanguard in the family therapy arena have been
Steve de Shazer (1985, 1988) and Insoo Kim Berg (Berg & de Shazer,
1993), of the Milwaukee Family Institute, who have focused on rapidly
finding a solution to the problem being presented. They have developed
catchy interventions like asking the miracle question, which others
can quickly learn to do. Those practicing brief, solution-focused therapy
are not interested in diagnosis or formal assessment, in developing
self-awareness, or in any personality reconstruction. Their sole aim is
problem resolution. With the advent of managed care since the late
1980s and its accompanying cost containment policies, insurance companies have favored such brief approaches and helped them gain in
popularity because of their reimbursability.
Functional family therapy (FFT). This behaviorally based and
structured approach to treating families with a delinquent or oppositionally defiant adolescent, also came into its own (Alexander & Parsons, 1982; Alexander & Barton, 1990). It has become a well-researched
and documented treatment methodology (Alexander & Barton, 1995;
Alexander & Pugh, 1996). FFT has been designated one of two Family
Based Empirically Supported Treatments (FBESTS) that are effective
and reproducible with families representing a wide range of cultures,
ethnicities, rural and urban living contexts, . . . socio-economic levels,
and primary languages (Fraenkel, 1999, p. 35).
Integrative approaches. Integrative approaches also began to have
great appeal in the 1980s as more and more practitioners and theoreticians spoke out against doctrinaire leaders and schools of thought that
held that their approach was either the only right one, or certainly the
best of all possible ones. Among the integrationists are Larry Feldman
(1992); Alan Gurman (1981, 1990; Gurman & Kniskern (1981, 1991);
F. Kaslow (1981, 1987a); Diana and Sam Kirschner (1986); William
Nichols (1986, 1988a,b, 1999); William Pinsof (1990, 1998); and Carlos
Sluzki (1983). Those of this persuasion believe that the treatment approach should be selected judiciously based on such factors as the
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example Erickson & Erickson, 1988; Folberg & Milne, 1988; Haynes,
1981).
Clifford Sagers work on marriage contracts (1976) looked at contracting prior to marriage; his illuminating ideas were extended in a
later volume on treating the remarriage family (Sager et al., 1983).
Emily and John Visher (1979, 1991) also have made a substantial
contribution to the understanding of the dynamics and treatment of
stepfamilies, and were the co-founders of the Stepfamily Association
of America. F. Kaslow has written about psychosocial prenuptial agreements as a prelude to marriage and remarriage (1991, 2000b) and has
developed a therapeutic remarriage ritual (1998). Others like James
Bray have been conducting research on developmental issues in stepfamilies (Bray & Berger, 1993). Roni Berger (1999) has evolved a classification schema of stepfamilies. Thus, there are now many extant resources for academicians, researchers and clinicians working in the
areas of divorce and remarriage.
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journal. Howard Liddle served as its first editor, Ronald Levant as its
second, and Ross Parke as its third. The journals circulation figures
place it among the most widely read of the family journals that are
primarily research oriented.
Also during the 1980s, the American Board of Family Psychology
(ABFamP) began its diplomating process and has achieved growing
recognition. ABFamP became one of the boards under the long existing
American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), which added credibility to family psychology as a specialty. There are three steps to
becoming board certified, a rigorous credentials review process; submission and review of two work samplesone in family assessment and
diagnosis, the other in treatment intervention; and a 3-1/2 hour oral
examination with a committee of three diplomates. As of May 2000
there were approximately 115 board certified family psychologists in
the United States.
Concurrently, many family psychologists have remained involved
in AAMFT and AFTA and some are licensed as both psychologists and
family therapists and are AAMFT approved supervisors. They also are
on the editorial boards of such interdisciplinary journals as Journal of
Marital and Family Therapy, Family Process, The American Journal
of Family Therapy, Contemporary Family Therapy, and Journal of
Family Psychotherapy.
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fine reputations and have vast referral networks, they have fared well.
By the end of the last century, an increasing number of clinicians were
so dissatisfied with drastic limits on number of sessions and severe
reductions in fees that they resigned from the panels of providers. This
has had an effect on the quality of service available to people with
limited financial resources in under-served geographic locales.
Since a major thrust of the managed health care industry is cost
containment, third party payers have a decided preference for brief
and thus less costly therapies. They are loathe to reimburse for longer
term psychodynamic or intergenerational therapies; their goals are
rapid restoration of functioning and solving the presenting problem as
quickly as possible. Thus, approaches like de Shazers (1985, 1988) and
Bergs (Berg & de Shazer, 1993) solution focused brief therapy model
used for individual and family problems have gained popularity. Many
patients like talk of miracles and the probability of needing only a few
sessions; they do not want to delve into their families of origin and
rehash old issues in order to feel better in the here and now.
Behavioral marital and family therapies (Budman & Gurman,
1988; Wood & Jacobson, 1990; Jacobson & Gurman, 1986), like brief
therapies, also garnered new adherents as these time limited, problem
focused, clear and structured modalities lend themselves to managed
care constraints and reporting specifications. Cognitive behavioral approaches also are receiving more attention (Baucom, 1990; Baucom,
Epstein, & Rankin, 1995; Dattilio & Padesky, 1990; Seligman, 1991)
as many therapists now prefer focusing on changing cognitions as well
as behaviors. Not surprisingly, some cognitive behaviorists have become more integrative and include the other component of the triad,
affects or feelings. This has emerged as the approach with the most
empirical data supportive of its efficacy.
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inherent in the approach (Sluzki, 1992). OHanlon Hudson and HudsonOHanlon promulgated their own variation of the restorying theme in
their volume, Rewriting Love Stories (1991).
Social constructionism also has come to occupy a prominent place
in the theoretical and therapeutic array of choices. Inherently an antidiagnostic, anti-labeling paradigm, like the narrative approach, it focuses on the use of language in communication and how people construct their own meanings for their personal realities and relationships
through language. Therapy occurs through the meaning that emerges
in the dialogue and the language of the session; the therapist and
family co-construct the meanings to be attached to events and relationships. This is essentially a non-hierarchical model that eschews the
role of the therapist as either conductor, coach, or expert. Instead the
client/consumer is an equal participant in determining what will transpire and evolve. Leaders in formulating and promulgating this approach have been Harry Goolishian and Harlene Anderson (1990), Tom
Andersen (1990, 1996), Kenneth Gergen (Gergen & Davis, 1985), and
Lynn Hoffman (Gergen, Hoffman, & Andersen, 1996); all are persuasive
writers and speakers, and they have found adherents, particularly in
the more non-conformist, non-traditional wings of the profession.
Other noteworthy methodologies that have achieved some popularity in this era are Imago Therapy (Hendricks, 1992), Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) (Greenwald, 1994; Shapiro,
1994), and various hypnotherapy approaches (Hudson-OHanlon, 1987;
Lankton & Lankton, 1989; Zeig, 1985a, 1985b). All of these fall under
the rubric of brief therapies.
Besides the new entries in the realm of therapeutic approaches,
there have been some other shifts in the field in this decade, and
different attitudes and values have come to the fore. The voices of the
third and fourth generation have grown more forceful; sometimes they
are very innovative, other times they build upon and crystallize ideas
already expressed. For example, as discussed earlier, feminist family
therapy began in the late 1970s and crested in the 1980s. It has become
a generally accepted part of the field, which now has many more female
members and leaders than was the case during the first two decades
of the evolution of family therapy.
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ert Bly, a poet, was the founder of the mythopoetic movement that
stressed the importance of men nurturing men (Erkel, 1990). Mens
groups formed in which the men sought acceptance and friendship from
each other, and many bemoaned the lack of emotional involvement of
their fathers during their childhood years. Some gatherings occurred
to the accompaniment of tom-tom beats and men began to express
their fears, their needs, and their dreams. Well-known therapist Frank
Pittman (1990) wrote about the masculine mystique and the longing
for fathers to endow sons with masculinity, and about the endeavor to
understand what masculinity is and encompasses. At meetings of AFTA
and the APA Practice Divisions Mid-Winter conferences, special sessions for male therapists only were held. There and elsewhere, men of
the current generation of fathers, therapists and non-therapists alike,
vowed to be more emotionally accessible, especially to their sons. The
Family Therapy Networker (1990) devoted the major portion of a full
issue to this topichighlighting and extending its significance. In the
mid-1990s, initiated by such men as Ronald Levant (Levant & Kopecky,
1995; Levant & Pollack, 1995), Gary Brooks (1995) and Don-David
Lusterman (Philpot, Brooks, Lusterman & Nutt, 1997), a new division
for the study of men and masculinity was begun in APADivision 52.
Probably the newest mass variation on the mens movement theme
has been the rapid evolution of The Promise Keepers, a recently formed
organization that supposedly numbers more than a million men asserting their manhood. A headline on Time Magazines cover raised the
query, Should they be cheeredor feared? around the time the million
man march on Washington occurred (Stodhill, 1997). A fervent Christian movement, led by a former college football coach, Bill McCartney,
the positive goal is for men to assume greater responsibility for themselves, their wives, and their children. Two of the aspects that are
frightening to many outside of the movement are: (1) they believe that
when men and women disagree, the mans view and decision must
prevail as he is ultimately in charge of the family, and this is perceived
as Gods will; and (2) members view homosexuality as a sin and not
acceptable in Gods eyes or theirs. Although many Promise Keepers
claim their wives welcome their taking a stronger role in the family,
feminists and othersmen and women alikedecry turning the clock
back to glorify the male dominant/female submissive role relationship
of men and women and the censuring of homosexuality as sinful. Certainly this gigantic and seemingly fundamentalist segment of the mens
movement will change the dynamics of many families, hopefully without promoting spouse abuse and corporal punishment of children as
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(1981, 1988), and Luciano LAbate and Dennis Bagarrozi (1993) also
continue to conduct research in numerous areas of endeavor.
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couples married more than 20 years who deem their marriages satisfying and successful. Numerous articles, published by researchers collaborating in an eight-country study that spanned five continents, found
respondents identified remarkably similar factors as the basis of their
marital satisfaction, including trust and respect in all areas of the
relationship, shared goals and values, strong commitment to the partner and to the marriage as a special entity, the continuing ability to
have fun together, much affection and ongoing sexual activity, reciprocity and mutuality, consideration and the ability to compromise, and
deep friendship (Kaslow & Hammerschmidt, 1992; Kaslow & Robison,
1996; Sharlin, 1996; Roizblatt et al., 1999; Sharlin, Kaslow & Hammerschmidt, 2000). Wallerstein and Blakeslee (1995) also sought to ascertain how and why love lasts. One goal of all of these researchers has
been to generate a profile of the ingredients and kinds of interactions
that are conducive to creating satisfying long-term partnerships that
can be utilized to help guide unhappy couples toward finding greater
satisfaction and harmony.
Miscellaneous Trends
We have also witnessed increasing emphasis on certain content
areas, i.e., syndromes, symptoms, and specific maladies. These include
chronic illness (Barth, 1993), suicidology (N. Kaslow, Thompson et al.,
1998a), depression (N. Kaslow, Ash, & Deering, 1996), ADHD (Culbertson & Silovsky, 1996), eating disorders (Levine, 1996), and AIDS (Landau-Stanton & Clements, 1993). Some of these disorders are treated
by therapists involved in the area variously designated family systems
medicine, medical family therapy, and behavioral medicine discussed
earlier. Other therapists see them in their private individual or group
practices.
Another trend has been the evolution of outreach approaches, including at home therapy. These practical team approaches are being
utilized increasingly with severely distressed inner city populations.
For example, the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, part of the Childrens Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
Pennsylvania in the 1990s, served a patient population largely comprised of multi-problem, hard to reach, inner city families and reached
into their homes and communities to do so (Lindblad-Goldberg, Dore, &
Stern, 1998). This well respected training center has both an APA
approved internship and an AAMFT accredited training programone
of the few facilities in the country to have both. Similar outreach programs have evolved in other countries, like Israel, for utilization with
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their large, chaotic, often newly arrived immigrant families (Sharlin &
Shamai, 1999).
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Responsibility to clients
Confidentiality
Professional competence and integrity
Responsibility to students, employees, and supervisees
Responsibility to research participants
Responsibility to the profession
Financial arrangements
Advertising.
Multiple relationships
Exceeding ones competence and maintaining expertise
Sexual harassment
Delegation to and supervision of subordinates
Informed consent
Maintenance of records.
In addition, guidelines are provided regarding what is considered ethical behavior in numerous other realms of professional practice.
The spiraling concerns about therapists being brought up on ethics
or malpractice charges have made many therapists more cautious regarding whom they are willing to treat. The large mental health professional organizations now often employ in-house legal counsel with
whom members can consult, and have worked with insurance companies to develop appropriate liability insurance programs. These signs of
our times reflect our feelings of vulnerability, the decrease in therapist
freedom, the increase in patients power, and the creation of external
bodies, beyond professional organizations, which rule on professional
standards of conduct.
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SUMMARY
It becomes apparent that the leaders in the past two decades have
shared many traits with the pioneers of the first two generationsthey
are innovative, courageous, bright to brilliant, often charismatic, determined to be heard and seen, committed to their ideas and interpretations and eager to promulgate them, and often have the requisite narcissism to be on stage and to occupy front and center position. They are
articulate, emanate strength and power, write well, think clearly, and
are willing to buck the prevailing tide. They have kept the field dynamic,
lively, multifaceted and on a perpetual pathway to finding better techniques and solutions to enable individuals and families to become happier and more functional. Today, leaders from all four generations are
active and interactivereflecting the tensions and affections of the
multigenerational and tribe-like families we treat.
As this article, which attempts to highlight the trends of the past 20
years, the contributions of key leaders and thinkers, and development of
various organizations, is drawn to a close, it is reiterated that it has
not been possible to be all inclusive, and apologies are expressed to
anyone inadvertently omitted. This author has tried to be as objective
and broad based as her own professional lens permits. Others will no
doubt chronicle the field differently, again reflecting its patchwork quilt
stylecolorful, diverse, and variegated. May it continue to be so during
this new millennium.
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