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Family Therapy's Coming of Age: Less Haste, More Speed
Author(s) -
Crawley Jim
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1986.tb01155.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , ideology , maturity (psychological) , project commissioning , face (sociological concept) , publishing , sociology , psychology , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , social science , political science , developmental psychology , law , politics
Responding to the question implicit in the title of the 1985 National Family Therapy Conference ‘Coming of Age’, the author argues that Australian family therapy still has a number of issues to face before it can be said to be a mature and independent adult. The paper focuses on three issues — ideology in family therapy, theory for practice, and practice itself— and raises questions about the adequacy of Australian family therapy's theoretical maturity, suggesting that there is still too much reliance on the ‘new’ and on the ‘guru’ rather than on a solid building on therapeutic experience.