This article reviews the application of constructivist approaches to a variety of issues and in contexts that include family-therapist relationships in rural settings, couple-therapist perceptions of therapeutic change, 'failed" conversations (therapy) with refugeefamilies, women 's suruival of childhood sexual abuse, family rituals, fairness in marriage, constructions of intimacy, and interpretations of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADJID).
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