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    Haley, Minuchin and Satir - Treatment Modalities

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    Haley, Minuchin and Satir – Treatment Modalities: This 9-page comparative essay explores the psychotherapeutic ideologies of Jay Haley, Salvador Minuchin and Virginia Satir. All critically acclaimed in the field of family counseling, each had specific and often divergent methodologies to promote healing. Nonetheless, all three have made an indelible mark in this field of study, and are well respected by colleagues and patients alike. Bibliography lists 5 sources. SNPsycho.doc

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    by colleagues and patients alike. Bibliography lists 5 sources. SNPsycho.doc Haley, Minuchin and Satir - Treatment Modalities   Enterprises Inc. By Susan A. Nelson - August 2001 VISIT/aftersale.htm paper properly! In recent decades a plethora of divergent experts have  written volumes in the way of innovative/ groundbreaking work in the field of family/ marriage counseling. Pioneers such as Jay Haley, Virginia Satir and Salvador Minuchin have all made  an indelible mark in this field of study and are well respected and lauded by colleagues and patients alike. However, not surprisingly their psychotherapeutic approaches were often divergent in  many respects. In fact, it was Haley who made the very pointed remark when he wrote: "Because of the variety of ways families are treated, one cannot call family  therapy simply a new method of treatment. It is a new way of conceptualizing [and] if the individual is to change, the context in which he lives must [also]  change." According to Haley and based on this premise, the unit of treatment should no longer be singling out the individual, even when only the single person is interviewed/  treated. He believed treatment should now set out to address the complex set of relationships and family structures in which the person is embedded and compelled to interact within  (Haley, 1976). However, Jay Haley was not the only therapist/ philosopher ahead of his time that had slightly unorthodox ways of designing his patients treatment milieus. This  comparative essay explores the psychotherapeutic ideologies of not only Jay Haley, but also Salvador Minuchin and Virginia Satir as well. Jay Haley is 

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