Searching for Family Therapy in the Rockies: Family Therapists Meet A Paleontologist

Author(s)

Dan Wulff, University of Louisville
Sally St. George, University of Louisville
Ronald J. Chenail, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

ORCID ID

0000-0002-9935-0267, 0000-0002-8987-2520, 0000-0002-9312-9780

ResearcherID

G-8814-2018

Publication Title

Contemporary Family Therapy

ISSN

0892-2764

Publication Date

12-2000

Abstract

Family therapists use concepts germane to other academic disciplines. We recount four notions--context, explanatory metaphors, language conventions, and persistently refining knowledge--that family therapists and paleontologists each utilize. Revisiting family therapy's foundational concepts through the lens of another discipline reminds us of our theoretical beginnings, highlights those professional adaptations that we have made over the years, and offers us an opportunity to reinvigorate and expand our central organizing principles.

DOI

10.1023/A:1007844800731

Volume

22

Issue

4

First Page

407

Last Page

414

NSUWorks Citation

Wulff, D., St. George, S., & Chenail, R. J. (2000). Searching for Family Therapy in the Rockies: Family Therapists Meet A Paleontologist. Contemporary Family Therapy, 22 (4), 407-414. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007844800731