Family Therapy

Salvador Minuchin

is best known for his development of structural family therapy,

Bowenian family therapy

focuses on differentiation.

Paul Watzlawick's

work focuses more on metacommunication and connections between families that maintain a sense of balance. 

transactional patterns - structure 

these transactional patterns is the focus of family therapy, as the therapist attempts to change the patterns to redefine boundaries and restructure the family system.