Thematic review of family therapy journals in 2008

Abstract

In this paper the contents of the principal English‐language family therapy journals, and family therapy papers from other journals published in 2008, are reviewed under the following headings: child‐focused problems, adult‐focused problems, couples, diversity, developments in systemic practice, training, research, and recent deaths of significant contributors to the field.

The effectiveness of family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems

“…It is also a companion paper to a review of research on the effectiveness of systemic interventions for adult-focused problems . Over the past eight years within the field of family therapy two trends are particularly salient (Carr, , 2006(Carr, , 2008Rivett, 2001Rivett, , 2002Rivett, , 2003. Among family therapist practitioners, narrative and social constructionist approaches informed by a postmodern ideology have become increasingly popular in informing a vibrant and creative approach to conducting therapy.…”