Haley and Madanes believe families go through dysfunctional stages to get to functional ones.
Clinical handbook of couple therapy.
Usually, it is recommended that the naïve therapist starts with a three-generation genogram and then follows-up with the different life cycle stages and family functions as outlined below.
These people are trained to recognize mental, behavioral and emotional problems and address them appropriately.
Patients and families with more difficult and intractable problems such as poor prognosis schizophrenia, conduct and personality disorder, chronic neurotic conditions require family interventions and therapy.
Boscolo continued the interviewing, but made that the focus of his intervention, rather than strategies.