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Family Therapy in India: A New Profession in an Ancient Land?

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This paper examines the need for family therapy in India and its evolution as an integrated academic discipline and widespread form of clinical practice. Included is a discussion of the numerous factors placing Indian families at risk today, both common and more serious child, marital, and family difficulties, the current status of mental health services and minimal emphasis on family-based treatment, and the potential benefits of family therapy to such a radically diverse and rapidly changing society. Targets of and settings for family therapy training are highlighted, and a brief outline of a training-the-trainer approach is provided.

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  1. Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071

    David K. Carson

  2. Post Graduate Department of Home Science, Berhampur University, Berhampur (Bhanja Bihar), Orissa, India

    Aparajita Chowdhury

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Carson, D.K., Chowdhury, A. Family Therapy in India: A New Profession in an Ancient Land?. Contemporary Family Therapy 22, 387–406 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007892716661

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