ABSTRACTS OF LITERATURE

Fifteen are described and compared, training programs for family therapists, using a scale published by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry that identifies the theoretical spectrum of each of the centers. Results indicate that the centers vary from experiential to structural (with a few in the middle that combine both orientations). It was concluded that training programs as they now exist suffer from the absence of an adequate diagnostic nomenclature for family therapy and from an insufficiently designed conceptual framework.