THEORIES AND APPROACHES TO FAMILY COUNSELING

This article examines from a historical perspective the theories and a pproaches to family counselling. Having been planted in the 1940's, th e family counselling movement continues to develop into a major counse lling perspective with considerable theoretical and professional influ ence. Major schools of family counselling theory and practice are exam ined. Future directions are identified, such as social constructionism , gender issues, normative bias, counsellor as expert and integration of individual and systemic theory.