Welcome to the Association for Multiple Family Group Therapy and the Multiple Family Group Therapy Resource Center
Multiple Family Group Therapy The Hidden Method
Multiple Family Group Therapy at Oakleigh Treatment Center, Durham, NC
Why Does Multiple Family Group Therapy Work With Chemically Dependent Families?
Role of the Therapist In Multiple Family Group Therapy
Developing Your Multiple Family Group Therapy Style
It's Not Family Therapy, It's Not Group Therapy, It's Multiple Family Group Therapy
Assessing Families For Multiple Family Group Therapy
Assessing The Family Dance
MFGT Diagnostic Interview Outline
Common Traits of Emotionally Healthy Families: Achieving Interdependence
Human Growth & Development Chart
Timing, Pacing and Tracking in MFGT
Family Systems Points to Ponder
Getting Families Into Treatment
Psycho-Education for Chemically Dependent Families Attending an IOP Program
Principles of Supervising Multiple Family Group Therapists
Questions To Ask MFGT Trainees
Questions To Be Answered By Supervisor Prior To Beginning Training
Questions For Assessing the Trainees MFGT Ability
Orientation Questions the MFGT Trainee Needs To Ask The Trainer
Training The MFGT Therapist by H. Peter Laqueur
Training Plan for MFGT With Chemically Dependent and Other At-Risk Families
Our mission is to gather and share information about Multiple Family Group Therapy and to provide a central location where Multiple Family Group Therapists can become a community of support for each other.
H. Peter Laqueur, MD, The Father of Multiple Family Therapy
An Interview With George H. Orvin, MD, the Father of Adolescent MFGT by Lewis N. Foster 1994
Multiple Family Therapy: an overview by Eia Asen 2002
The Essential Elements of Multi-Family Group Therapy: a Delphi Study by Scott A. Edwards 2001
Growth Groups for Children and Families by Howard J. Clinebell, Jr 1977
The Coliseum Model of MFGT by Lewis N. Foster 1994
A Model for MFGT In Adolescent Inpatient Treatment by Nicholas A. Belsky MSW 1995
MFGT A Model for Social Workers At Children's Homes by John Howe MSW 1994
Schizophrenia and MFTG by Lewis N. Foster 1994
Addiction and MFGT: Birth of the Foster Model by Lewis N. Foster 1991
A House Divided: MFG in Dual Diagnosis Treatment by Tom Saunders, PHD
The Foster Model of Multiple Family Group Therapy With Chemically Dependent Families
Multifamily Groups in the Treatment of Severe Psychiatric Disorders by William R. McFarlane, MD, 2002
A Multiple Family Group Therapy Program for At Risk Adolescents and Their Families by Susan T. Dennison
Families & Schools Together (FAST) a multifamily group intervention by Dr. Lynn McDonald 2002
National Association for Multiple Family Group Therapy
"Bridging Family Connections"
1116 Broadwell Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Contact Person: Natalie Boorman at hickorygroveart@mindspring.com
Welcome to the National Association for Multiple Family Group Therapy. If you would like to know more about the association please send an email to the above contact person.
***Two New Articles***
#40 & #41 Written by Gabriele Schaefer from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, 2008.
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Multiple Family Group Therapy Resource Center
"Building community by helping families help each other."
PO Box 6063
Florence, SC 29502-6063
(843) 667-4186
Contact Person: Lewis N. Foster at fosterlew@aol.com
As you read through the articles you may find that reading MFGT The Hidden Method a good place to start. Gina K. Brodsky completed this work while she was in graduate school in the fall of 1999 and she gives us a nice reflection of the MFGT movement today.
Please make copies of the articles and share them with anyone who'll read them. Give us credit for our work and use the information to help the citizens in your community.
If you know of articles or studies or books that we don't have listed, please forward a copy or give directions to the information so we can add a link to it or add it to this website.
This website is dedicated to Multiple Family Group Therapy. If you know about any training taking place that is focused on MFGT, let us know and we'll add the information to the training page.
Impact of Multiple-Family Groups for Outpatients With Schizophrenia on Caregivers' Distress and Resources 2004
Multiple-Family Groups for Urban Children With Conduct Difficulties and Their Families (Mary M. McKay, PhD, and others) 2002
Multiple Family Group Therapy in a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre by Gabriel Schaefer March 2008 (Auckland, New Zealand)
Multiple Family Group Therapy in a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre: Residents' Experiences, by Gabriele Schaefer June 2008 (Auckland, New Zealand)
Multiple Family Therapy: Recovering From Addiction, Jaqueline M. Doubles, recorded at Addiction In Society
Family and Multi-Family Work with Psychosis: A guide for Professionals, by Gerd-Ragna Block Thorsen, Trond Gronnestad and Anne Lise Oxnevard, 2006
Social Work with Multi-Family Groups by D. Rosemary Cassano, Editor This is a "Google Book." 1989
Multiple Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa: Cconcepts, Experiences and Results by Michael Scholz, Maud Rix, Katja Scholz, Krassimir Gantchev, & Volker Thomke - Journal of Family Therapy Vol. 27 Issue 2 Page 132 May 2005
Chocolate Pudding and Other Approaches to Intensive Multiple-Family therapy by Ruth McClendon and Leslie B. Kadis 1983
A Brief Multiple Family Group Model for Juvenile First Offenders by William H. Quinn, David J. VanDyke & Sean T. Kurth at The University of Georgia
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