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Searching for Family Therapy in the Rockies: Family Therapists Meet A Paleontologist

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Family therapists use concepts germane to other academic disciplines. We recount four notions--context, explanatory metaphors, language conventions, and persistently refining knowledge--that family therapists and paleontologists each utilize. Revisiting family therapy's foundational concepts through the lens of another discipline reminds us of our theoretical beginnings, highlights those professional adaptations that we have made over the years, and offers us an opportunity to reinvigorate and expand our central organizing principles.

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  1. Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40292

    Dan Wulff

  2. Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40292

    Sally St. George

  3. School of Social and Systemic Studies, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33314

    Ron Chenail

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Wulff, D., St. George, S. & Chenail, R. Searching for Family Therapy in the Rockies: Family Therapists Meet A Paleontologist. Contemporary Family Therapy 22, 407–414 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007844800731

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