CAHSS Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Multiple Impact Family Therapy
Book Title
Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy
ORCID ID
0000-0001-6204-5296
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9783319158778
Publication Date
6-22-2017
Editors
Jay L. Lebow, Anthony L. Chambers, Douglas C. Breunlin
Keywords
couples therapy, family therapy, multiple impact family therapy
Description
In the late 1950s, the Youth Development Project was a specialized service for adolescents and their families, offered by the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas (Ritchie 1960). Families seeking treatment came from a considerable distance – “anywhere from 50 to 450 miles” (Ritchie 1960, p. 16) – and this presented special difficulties, as a regular weekly meeting over several months was not an option. The Multiple Impact Team (MIT) model started as a way to solve this problem of distance, but developed into a systemic intervention (MacGregor 1962; Ritchie 1960; MacGregor et al. 1964).
Publisher
Springer
City
Cham, Switzerland
Disciplines
Counseling | Social and Behavioral Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Rambo, A. H., & Boyd, T. V. (2017). Multiple Impact Family Therapy. Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/119