Efforts to organize diverse and often competing family therapy approaches point to a variety of ideas about clinical practice. Myriad conceptual viewpoints reveal how sensitivity to multiculturalfactors is consistent with recent contextual and relational emphases. A detailed case study illustrates the advantages of drawingfrom an interactionist and constructivist orientation.
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