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[edit] Family Systems Therapy redirect vs Family Therapy
Typing "family therapy" in the Wikipidia search bar redirects you to the page "family systems therapy". This seems to mean that "family therapy" and Family Systems Therapy are unqustionably synonymous. However, the term Family Systems Therapy is used in various ways
a) as a synonym for family therapy as here, in a kontext where branches of family therapy for which the title FST would not be appropriate just are not mentioned
b) in a narrower sense for schools of family therapy which are seen as in some ways inspired by General Systems Theory
c) In a very narrow sense for the approach of Murray Bowen.
Moreover there is also "systemic family therapy" (term often used in Europe), which again maybe is synonymous with FST in the sense b), maybe not. I think it would be better to have an article named just "family therapy" as it is more general and more internationnally accepted term.
The article obviously needs expanding, epecially bringing it more up to date. It is a quite briliant summing up of family therapy or FST as it was seen 30 years ago, but there have been very important developments since then, and these would be better expalained under the heading "family therapy" rather then FST.
At this point, when the article is in the stub stage, it does not seem usefull to me to include all this terminological hairsplitting into the body of the article.
Would be glad if someone reacts to this. Georgius 13:17, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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- Well, the whole paragraph about Nathan Ackerman was duplicated, for what that's worth. I'm at a loss, though. Does every theorist mentioned here deserve a separate article, or should we just break this one up into sections (and if so, what do we do with the Ackerman article?) This is too big of a decision for me (and yes, that was a cop-out). Also, since all the information on the theorists was added in large, unwikified chunks, should we suspect copyvio? JP | Tark 02:50, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC) [copied here from Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Family therapy — Knowledge Seeker দ 09:23, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)]
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- Yikes! It certainly looks that way (copyvio-like). My cursory Google search only turned up WP mirrors, though—it's been in the article for a long time. I'll try some more detailed searches tomorrow. — Knowledge Seeker দ 09:23, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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- I am the author of the "copyvio-like" article. I "copied" it (slightly edited) from a paper I wrote for a Family Therapy course (hence its academic tone). Thus, there is no copyright violation. I wrote the paper in the early 1980s, so the estimate given by Georgius is fairly accurate (and thank you, Georgius for calling it a brilliant summary--I rather liked it, too, hence my decision to share it here). If copyright concerns were the only factor in deleting it, please feel free to restore it, although of course the questions regatding detailing each theorists' theories in this one article remains. I happily offered the paper, and I'll leave it to those more involved in the structure of Wikipedia to determine how best to use it. But as to copyright issues, fear not.
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- Thanks for sharing your work (which I'll accept as authentic unless someone presents evidence to the contrary, though a specific name and citation would help, from either Knowwledge Seeker or 71.108.18.201)! I've reverted the revert, and we can continue to move on from there. I'd love to see more on Murray Bowen. --NealMcB July 7, 2005 04:09 (UTC)
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I'm splitting this up into articles on each (there is tons of information on each of the founders out there. However I am leaving the resynthesis/comparison of all of the different approaces to someone more knowledgeable in the field. --Meawoppl 23:57, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] merge from "Couple and family therapy"
Given both articles start Couple and family therapy is there a reason they should not be merged with a redirect. Although that article is purely US in scope and would need expansion -- Paul foord 06:30, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
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- I concur with the above, both seem to touch on virtually the same core subject matter. Netkinetic 07:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I would just like to comment that this page is inaccurate as to the scope of practice for MFT's. Currently MFT's are able to work with families, individuals and children in multiple settings including individual and group. They can however also work in agencies and many work in academia, as college and school counselors and in administration. The field is expanding on the scope of training provided to MFT students and the jobs they get after they graduate and/or become licensed.
