family therapy

1. 1.

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

   Broadergroup therapy

Questions about family therapy

What does family therapy mean?

family therapy means "any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole".

Is family therapy a common word?

family therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.