family therapy
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- noun
- /ˈfæmɪli ˈθɛrəpi/
- Specialized
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terapia familiar
- After months of miscommunication, they decided to seek family therapy to help resolve their conflicts.
- Structural family therapy
- individual and family therapy
- family therapy and counseling
You can certainly give it the old college try and attempt to address it in couples therapy or family therapy.
- You can certainly give it the old college try and attempt to address it in couples therapy or family therapy.
- I I'd done a diploma in family therapy and NLP diploma, a degree, a foundation degree in management.
- It's like very fancy family therapy because you've got the cause of the problem and the result of the problem in the same situation.
Examples
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The second empirical study involved children who were referred to an outpatient child and family therapy clinic.
Academic text (2006) -
The brief therapy center provides experiences in marital and family therapy using an innovative, solution-focused approach.
Academic text (1991) -
Sort all this out in family therapy.
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It's just basic family therapy.
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See you at family therapy.
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There was no significant difference between the two groups in the amount of time spent in family therapy.
Academic text (1990) -
I go to the family therapy sessions.
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The same principle, the need for ongoing communication, is evident in family therapy.
Academic text (1998) -
We'd go for a family therapy session together once a week...
Fiction book (1990) -
Particularly in these cases, psychoeducational materials regarding depression in adolescents or referrals to family therapy should be provided during follow-up.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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5.8
Treatment that uses talking with a trained person to help problems with feelings or thinking
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'therapy' (treatment) applied to or involving the 'family', so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes therapeutic treatment for family members. This noun–noun construction is a common, transparent pattern cross-linguistically (e.g. terapia familiar, thérapie familiale), so it will be immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Family therapy comes from the simple image of joining family and therapy: a therapist works with the whole family to watch how they speak and behave with each other. That's why it means 'a way of treating family members together to improve communication and solve problems'.