1. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 III. Early Models of Family Therapy Power Point presentation prepared by Leslie Barnes-Young, PhD, Francis Marion University “This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any images; any rental, lease, or lending of program.”

2. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 In the early 1950s family therapy was begun independently in four places: John Bell, Clark University Murray Bowen, Menninger Clinic Nathan Ackerman, New York Jon Jackson & Jay Haley, Palo Alto

3. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 John Bell Began treating families in 1951 Approach derived directly from group therapy Ideas were not widely circulated

4. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Murray Bowen Was a psychiatrist trained from an intrapsychic perspective Focused on the differentiation of self from one’s family-of-origin Very influential

5. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Nathan Ackerman Published the first article on family functioning in 1937. Was trained as a child psychiatrist. Saw family problems as rooted in conflict. Founded the famed Ackerman Family Institute in 1960.

6. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Haley & Jackson Were a part of the Palo Alto group that discovered family therapy in the process of studying schizophrenia. Jackson’s family homeostasis defined families as units that resist change–an idea that captured family therapy for thirty years. Haley conceptualized all behavior, even symptomology, as “normal” given its context.

7. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 The first journal of family therapy: Family Process www.FamilyProcess.org/