I ran a treatment center for a few years, and part of that job was training therapists to think systemically, so watching a eyes glaze over as I explained how to create a hypothesis became very familiar to me. I realize now that I was not only asking them to learn a theory, but I was asking them ...

Case conceptualization for family work is hard; it’s easy to blur modalities and start thinking about attachment styles, then consider the DSM-5 diagnosis, IEPs and learning difficulties too. If you want to take a systemic approach to case hypotheses, I’ve got a simple way to organize all your th...