And whereas, two decades ago, the most
prominent models of therapy focused almost exclusively on individual work, today as many as 70 percent of therapists here and abroad treat couples as part of their practices, according to a study conducted by prominent psychotherapy researcher David Orlinsky of the University of Chicago and his colleagues around the world.
Finally, while it's a typical feature
of more behaviorally oriented approaches — and I've been giving much more homework since learning sex
therapy — it's often not so
prominent in experiential
models.
Ideas and methods from family
therapy have been influential in psychotherapy generally: a survey
of over 2,500 US therapists in 2006 revealed that
of the 10 most influential therapists
of the previous quarter - century, three were
prominent family therapists and that the marital and family systems
model was the second most utilized
model after cognitive behavioral
therapy.