Good luck to everyone as you try to understand your particular set of family dynamics.
In this article the different schools are described and a case of a depressed teenager is used to illustrate how each type of family therapy is implemented.
One study found that adopted children with a high genetic risk for schizophrenia were more sensitive to adverse rearing practices in their adoptive family than were adopted children with low genetic risk.
Dad, I was really scared by you when you were yelling.
Then I would get up, wipe my face and get back to working and to my then two-year-old son.
A combination of these approaches is used in contemporary family therapy.