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Family therapy research: a challenge and a proposal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Bryan Lask
Bryan Lask*
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Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1
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The question is often asked: “Does family therapy work?” This is an important but useless question. It is important because an enormous amount of time, energy and money is put into the clinical practice of family therapy. It is practised in every continent; there are many training courses and qualifications in very many countries, and there are over 40 journals devoted to families and family therapy. Yet there is a healthy and justified scepticism. So yes, we ought to ask whether it works.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 12 , Issue 11 , November 1988 , pp. 489 - 490
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