Searching for family therapy in the rockies: Family therapists meet a paleontologist

Family therapists use concepts germane to other academic disciplines. We re count four notions-context, explanatory metaphors, language conventions, an d persistently refining knowledge-that family therapists and paleontologist s each utilize. Revisiting family therapy's foundational concepts through t he lens of another discipline reminds us of our theoretical beginnings, hig hlights those professional adaptations that we have made over the years, an d offers us an opportunity to reinvigorate and expand our central organizin g principles.