“…Auerswald has recently (1987) categorized these different therapeutic and theoretical orientations into a "family systems" therapy and an "ecological systems framework." Family systems therapy builds on systems thinking and general systems theory (Minuchin, 1985;Mook, 1985;Robinson & Parkinson, 1985) and is really quite different from the ecological systems framework (Auerswald, 1987). The ecological systems framework (Auerswald, L968, L97'J-, L985; Keeney, 1979;Keeney & Sprenkle, 1982;Wedemeyer, 1986) takes as its basis a fundamentally different view of the world (or epistemology) that emphasizes the cybernetic and information theory informed evolutionary insights of Gregory Bateson (1972Bateson ( , 1979, those highly influenced by him (Dell, 1982;Haley, 1971;Hoffman, 1,981;Jackson, 1965;Selvini-Palazzoli, Boscolo, Cecchin, & Prata, 1980;) and more recently, the growing literature of New Science (see Auerswald, 1987;Dell, 1985;Doherty, 1986).…”