• Alters interactions between family members.
• Appreciation of problems as interactional
• Modifying communication between family members.
• Optimizing position of boundaries between members.
• Establishing appropriate hierarchies.

Several models are included (e.g. structural, dynamic and integrated).

Family growth is taken as equivalent to individual growth.

psychopathological understanding

   – significant member can take an active role if needed in therapy.

   – Timing of family involvement.