title: Susan smiled: on explanation in family therapy.
abstract: The contemporary psychotherapist is exposed to a variety of conceptual models and paradigms. These are usually presented as opposing truths in different doctrinal schools, but actually they are all valid from one point of view or another. And accordingly, they are all tactically useful at some point or another. I thought it was important to say this, but I did not want to write a dry, academic paper on the subject. So I will tell a clinical story that weaves the threads into a fabric.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005196:Family Therapy; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009042:Motivation; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D010551:Personality; D012904:Smiling