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?

  MFGT Newsletter Archive

   An Interview With Lewis N. Foster on his Multiple Family Group Therapy Journey

 Paul K. Thorington EdD

    Dispatches From Paul K. Thorington, EdD

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.

Photograph: The first SC Conference on MFGT held at Bruce Hall Center, Florence, SC, (circa 1985) Photo By Jack Huffman

H. Peter Laqueur, MD, The Father of Multiple Family Therapy

  An Interview (Video) With George H. Orvin, MD, the Father of Adolescent MFGT by Lewis N. Foster 1994

The Use Of A Multi-Modal MFTG In The Comprehensive Treatment And Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia by Alexander P. Hyde, MD & Charles R. Goldman, MD

The Evolution of MFGT

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

  Multiple Family Group Therapy in Spain, Cuba, Peru and Brazil

          Claudio Fuenzalida - Psychologist - Centre de Terapia Interfamiliar, Elche, Spain - www.interfamilytherapy.com

          Javier Sempere, MD - Centre de Terapia Interfamiliar, Elche, Spain - www.interfamilytherapy.com

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 With Video by John Howe MSW 1994

A Psychoeducational Model of MFGT and the Management of Schizophrenia By Lewis N. Foster

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

Family Issues that May Interfere With The Treatment And Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia by A.P. Hyde, & C.R. Goldman 1989

  The Foster Model of Multiple Family Group Therapy With Chemically Dependent Families

   Jim A. Holder III, MA Perceptual Adjustment Therapy and MFGT Interview  - Video    Website: http://www.positiveintentions.org

Attention!

Upcoming MFGT training with Jim Holder at the 58th International Rodulph Dreikers Summer School on July 20, 2025.

Click on the "Training" Button at the top of the page for more information.

Lewis N. Foster, Founder

Multiple Family Group Therapy Resource Center

PO Box 6063

Florence, SC 29502-6063

fosterlew@aol.com

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Natalie Boorman, Founder

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

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    Booklet by Norman L. and Betty B. Paul with Joseph Bloom --- OUTPATIENT MULTIPLE FAMILY GROUP THERAPY -- WHY NOT?  Video link.

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  If you are new to the Webpage go to and read through Article #22, Training Plan for Multiple Family Group Therapy With Chemically Dependent Families where you will find many of the articles on this page as well as some not listed.

Outpatient Multiple Family Therapy Groups By Lewis N. Foster

Multiple Family Group Therapy Evaluation and Session Guide and Feedback Sheet By Lewis N. Foster

Primary Themes and Reframes in MFTG's with Substance-Abusing Adolescents By Gary Sauls and Stephanie Bouis, Duke Addictions Program

A Daily Meditation Exercise By Lewis N. Foster

  Multiple Family Therapy: General Systems Theory and Intervention StrategiesBy Paul K. Thorington, EdD and Robert Reimondi, MA

    Ways Men and Women Control Each Other, By Lewis N. Foster

  MFGT 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 and Natalie R. Boorman, recorded at ITAA's 31st Annual Conference.

  Performance of Duty by Lewis N. Foster 2017.  Before Multiple Family Group Therapy career began.

Social Work with Multi-Family Groups by D. Rosemary Cassano, Editor This is a "Google Book." 1989

     A Simulated "Back-To-Work" Conference Following Inpatient Treatment, By Lewis N. Foster

Photograph: H. Peter Laqueur, MD, the Father of Multiple Family Therapy

 Photograph: George H. Orvin, MD, the Father of Adolescent MFGT, MUSC Charleston, SC 

Click Here to Read and View the Video Interview with George H. Orvin, MD

Photograph: Alexander P. Hyde, MD, MFGT in the Treatment of Schizophrenia

Photograph:  John T. Edwards, PhD and Lewis N. Foster

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