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This article provides an overview of the relationship between family therapy and child and adolescent psychiatry by summarizing its historical background, highlighting points of conflict and polarization and areas of convergence between the two fields; identifying new directions for clinical practice stimulated by family research; and presenting a current status report on the benefits of integrating the two fields in assessment and treatment with emphasis on the new developments in theory and practice in family therapy, particularly the effect of social constructionism and narrative therapy.

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A survey was undertaken to assess the prevalence of family therapy models utilized by a sample of members in the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. Frequencies and rankings of widely recognized therapeutic frameworks are reported. Brief discussion centers on the highest ranking choice, the notion of eclecticism, and cautious interpretation of the data.

A color photograph of an exemplar of each of six breeds of domestic cat was shown to young children. Correct verbalizations of values of the exemplars’ coat color (CCs), coat length (CLs), and eye colors (ECs) were fist assessed and then, with breed names, strengthened through four study-test trials under part (P), cumulative part (CP), or whole (W) presentation, and through four more study-test trials under common W presentation. By the last studytest trial, breed names and verbalization of CC, CI, and EC had increased. When the photographs were replaced by spoken breed names, correct verbalizations of CC, EC, and CL decreased precipitously to lower percentages of occurrence. Initial P, CP, or W presentation made essentially no difference in acquisition of breed names, in strengthening verbalizations of values of attributes of CC, CL, and EC, or in transfer of verbalizations of values from photographs to breed names.