Continued evolution of family therapy: The last twenty years

There have been numerous accounts of the history and major trends and issue s in family therapy during the field's first three decades in the literatur e (see for example: Broderick & Shrader, 1981; Frame, 1972; Guerin, 1976; K aslow, 1973, 1977, 1980; Nichols, 1986, 1999 for some varied depictions, wr itten from each respective author's unique lens). Viewed as a set, packaged with different, yet interrelated contents, they offer a multihued portrait of the emerging field during its infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Now it is time to move on and look at the adulthood era as it has unfolded.