CAHSS Faculty Articles
Title
Searching for Family Therapy in the Rockies: Family Therapists Meet A Paleontologist
Department
Department of Family Therapy
Publication Date
12-2000
Publication Title
Contemporary Family Therapy
ISSN
0892-2764
Volume
22
Issue/No.
4
First Page
407
Last Page
414
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.
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
ORCID ID
0000-0002-9935-0267, 0000-0002-8987-2520, 0000-0002-9312-9780
ResearcherID
G-8814-2018
DOI
10.1023/A:1007844800731
