Chapter Title

Multiple Impact Family Therapy

Book Title

Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy

Authors

Anne H. Rambo, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Tommie V. Boyd, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Department

Department of Family Therapy

Files

Document Type

Book Chapter

Editors

Jay L. Lebow, Anthony L. Chambers, Douglas C. Breunlin

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).

ISBN

9783319158778

Publication Date

6-22-2017

Publisher

Springer

City

Cham, Switzerland

Keywords

couples therapy, family therapy, multiple impact family therapy

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

ORCID ID

0000-0001-6204-5296