Abstract
In this article, we review family therapy's history regarding community concerns and broader societal issues; offer a model of levels of therapists' involvement with communities and community systems; and propose that family therapists join the citizen activation movement by becoming catalytic partners with families in communities. We call for a new kind of community practice that is driven less by therapist-defined problems and professional expertise, and more by community-defined problems and families' own expertise.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 149-161 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Family process |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2000 |