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This 12 page paper looks at the history and development of structural family therapy. The paper traces the work of Salvador Minuchin and the way in which the foundations for the model were developed and then discusses the basic concepts of the approach. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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most influential psychology practitioners was held in the magazine "Psychotherapy Networker", out of 2,600 practitioners, Minuchin was placed in the top ten, in third place behind Carl Rogers and Aaron
Beck, ahead of both Carl Jung and Milton Erickson (Psychotherapist Network, 2007). Minuchin developed the concept of structural family therapy. While this has been found to be an effective approach
to psychotherapy, it may be argued structural family therapy was a timely development, reflecting the direction in which psychotherapy was evolving, which helped to increase its take up by the
profession. The aim of this paper is to look at the history and development of structural family therapy. Salvador Minuchin was Argentinean, after becoming a physician is served in the
Israeli army, and then travel to the United States, where he trained under Nathan Ackerman to become a child psychiatrist (Nicholls, 2009). Following is successful completion of the studies in
1952 Salvador Minuchin returned to Israel, where he started to work with displaced children. A disappointingly studies he became committed to the importance of the family context in the way
that children were being cared for (Nichols, 2009). Two years later, in 1954, he once again returns United States, this time undertaking attending the William Alanson Institute, undertaking psychoanalytic training,
studying Henry Stack Sullivans interpersonal psychiatry (Nichols, 2009). Following the studies Minuchin started to work at the Wiltwyck School for delinquent boys. The foundations of structural family therapy can be
traced back to his work at the school, where it was noted that Minuchin made a suggestion that he and his colleagues should start seeing the boys they were treating
with their families. Wiltwyck School for delinquent boys may be seen as a catalyst that stimulated the foundations for the development of this psychotherapeutic approach. The school presented a number
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