Client-Centered Family Therapy: Individual and Ecosystemic Issues

Abstract

Conducted within the context of the family, client-centered family therapy incorporates but also transcends dimensions of classic individual client-centered psychotherapy. When client-centered therapy is conducted within the family context its impact and efficaciousness is profoundly enhanced. Rogers' "necessary and sufficient conditions" for psychotherapeutic change are directly transferable to the context of client centered family therapy but require conceptual augmentation which create subtle but portentous new dimensions in the milieu of family therapy.