1. Up close: family therapy challenges and innovations around the world
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Glenda Fredman, Shin Ichi Nakamura, Hugo Kamya, Cristina Diez Fernández, Timothy Sim, Chitra Subrahmanian, Khawla Abu-Baker, Yolanda Martín Higarza, Janine Roberts, Fatma Torun Reid, Roxana Zevallos Vega, Jacqueline Fortes de Leff, Nelly Chong Garcia, and Philip Messent
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Family therapy ,Cross-Cultural Comparison ,Mental Health Services ,Economic growth ,Social Work ,Asia ,Social Psychology ,Poison control ,Suicide prevention ,Systemic therapy ,Occupational safety and health ,Power (social and political) ,Couples Therapy ,Peru ,Humans ,Translations ,Uganda ,Sociology ,China ,Mexico ,Research ,Mental health ,United Kingdom ,Clinical Psychology ,Spain ,Law ,Family Therapy ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
Family therapists from 10 different countries (China, India, Israel including Palestinian citizens, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, and the United Kingdom) describe systemic therapy in their contexts and current innovative work and challenges. They highlight the importance of family therapy continuing to cut across disciplines, the power of systems ideas in widely diverse settings and institutions (such as courts, HIV projects, working with people forced into exile), extensive new mental health initiatives (such as in Turkey and India), as well as the range of family therapy journals available (four alone in Spain). Many family therapy groups are collaborating across organizations (especially in Asia) and the article presents other ideas for connections such as a clearing house to inexpensively translate family therapy articles into other languages.
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- 2014