title: Taking it to the streets: family therapy and family-centered services.
abstract: This article examines the interconnections between family therapy, specifically postmodern and poststructural approaches, and family-centered services. It introduces particular applications of family-centered services such as systems of care, wraparound, family-driven care, the recovery movement, and family group conferencing and then summarizes the heart of family-centered approaches as a shift in how services are provided to families. It examines the "fit" between the values and principles of family-centered practice and postmodern/poststructural approaches and then offers particular ideas and practices from these approaches that can help frontline workers inhabit a spirit of respect, connection, curiosity and hope in their work.
authors.affiliation: Family-Centered Services Project, Cambridge, MA.
authors.forename: William C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Madsen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000379:methods*; D005190:Family; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans
keywords: Family-centered Services; Narrative Therapy; Poststructural Theory and Practice; servicios centrados en la familia; teoría y práctica posestructural; terapia narrativa; 以家庭为中心的服务; 叙事疗法; 后结构理论和实践