A healthier position to strive for within
systemic family therapy is an improvised script, where
families flexibly approach unique situations, retaining the better adaptive patterns from earlier
family generations and integrating new coping mechanisms where needed,
gives more scope for
families to successfully adapt to challenges.
Mr. Russell has
given many presentations on his clinical interests, including recent talks at national and state - wide professional conferences on the training of marriage and
family therapists, the treatment of veterans and their
families, and Integrative
Systemic Therapy (IST).