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Families with Single Parents and Family Therapy Implications

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used during ordinary family therapy sessions. Yet, it is important to be aware of the variations in problems and treatment. Often, even in single parent households, more than one parent  is involved. In fact, a child may live with a single mother but have a father in another household who is married to someone else. This sets up more complicated  family structures, but much of the dilemmas are the same. Still, with changes in family models--gay families, single parent households, families headed by grandparents--therapists should pay attention to new structures.  There is certainly a recognition that family structures have been dramatically altered through either divorce, remarriage or single parenthood (Boseley & Wintour, 1995 as cited in Featherstone, 1996).  A public, governmental admittance of the shift in the structure of families during the 1990s could have implications for therapeutic procedures within family therapy in the future (1996). Although  family therapy is by and large conducted similarly for intact families and single parent families, the nuances equated with the single parent families are vast and the issue deserves attention.  Single parent families are more likely to contain unnatural relationships between parent and child, contain conflict between the custodial and noncustodial parent, and have difficulties in terms of adequate  supervision. II. Review of the Literature and Application to the Single-Parent Family In embarking on techniques and procedures used in family therapy, several  are particularly applicable to single parent households for a myriad of reasons. In reviewing literature on the topic, a student should keep in mind that above all, therapy--whether it is  Freudian, transactional, client-centered or Gestalt--can also embrace other relevant concepts. While family therapy as a practice generally includes models that look at the entire family system with its own