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noun
the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
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Origin of family therapy
First recorded in 1975–80
Words nearby family therapy
family practice, family room, family skeleton, family style, family support, family therapy, family tree, family-tree theory, family values, family way, famine
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British Dictionary definitions for family therapy
family therapy
noun
a form of psychotherapy in which the members of a family participate, with the aim of improving communications between them and the ways in which they relate to each other
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