Positive Family and Marital Therapy

Abstract

Positive family therapy (PFT) is a set of psychotherapy methods aimed at solving family conflicts based on positive psychotherapy (PPT) concepts and principles. PPT incorporated insights from four main schools: psychodynamic, existentialist-humanistic, behaviorist, and transcultural therapy. The distinctive feature of PFT is that it can use both the positive and the negative aspects of the family, along with current psycho-social norms, as the source of treatment. During the therapy process, the balance method, the five-stage process, and the differentiation analysis inventory, all tools developed by under PPT principles, along with selected stories, are applied to work with couples and families. This chapter discusses these techniques, along with case examples of their application.