title: Family therapy: the making of a mental health movement.
abstract: Family therapy, unlike many fleeting therapeutic fads, has flourished in established mental health circles for the past 25 years. This paper examines the socio-historical sources of family therapy's popularity, and considers the growth and development of this contemporary American therapeutic phenomenon from a sociological perspective.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005190:Family; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States