FAMILY THERAPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family therapy mean? 

• FAMILY THERAPY (noun)
  The noun FAMILY THERAPY has 1 sense:

1. any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole

  Familiarity information: FAMILY THERAPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY THERAPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("family therapy" is a kind of...):

group psychotherapy; group therapy (psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist; interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic)

 Context examples 

Classes or family therapy may help parents learn to set and enforce limits.

(Child Behavior Disorders, NIH)