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SaLvador Minuchin, MD.

Creator of Structural Family Therapy, Champion of Family

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Family Values

“I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life -the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.”
Salvador Minuchin, MD.
Creator of Structural Family Therapy

Transformation

In the early 1960s, Salvador Minuchin gathered a team of therapists and researchers and set out to  transform the institutional setting of a correctional facility for young delinquents into a family-oriented treatment program.

Empowerment

 In 1967 Dr. Minuchin was appointed director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, an outpatient and inpatient facility serving to empower an urban population.

Collaboration

In 1981 Salvador Minuchin left Philadelphia for New York and founded Family Studies, a training and consultation institute.

With the assistance of a small group of collaborators, he continued training family therapists and expanded the application of Structural Family Therapy to the understanding and transformation of the interaction between marginalized families and the agencies that serve them

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“I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life -the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.”
Salvador Minuchin, MD.