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Family therapy is the type of psychotherapy which focuses on the interpersonal relations in the family as being an important factor in the maintenance of mental health. The methods of family therapy give a conceptual frame which organizes the complex information on multiple levels about the etiology and the maintenance of the problems.

The most distinctive element in family therapy is the systemic vision: "Families function as systems." The modification of one element in the system changes the function of the whole system.

Family therapy has a great variety of theoretical approaches (systemic, structuralist, strategic, experiential, cognitive-behavioral, psychoanalytic, narrative, social-constructivist, solution focused) and a wide range of psychotherapeutic techniques, which ensures the fact that this kind of psychotherapy can be used efficiently in any kind of human dilemmas or personal problems.