Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:137-141
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
Current trends in the training of family therapists
EW Beal
The author describes and compares training programs for family therapists
at 15 centers in 9 major U.S. cities, using a scale that reflects the
spectrum of theoretical approaches to family therapy. At one end of the
spectrum are the centers with an experiential orientation, at the other end
are those with a structural orientation, and in the middle are those which
combine these orientations. He concludes that although creative theoretical
advances are being made at a few of these centers, the quality and design
of training at the remaining centers suffer from the absence of an adequate
diagnostic nomenclature for family therapy and from an insufficiently
designed conceptual framework.
