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Multiple Impact Family Therapy

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

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