Write a 5 pages paper on the effectiveness of family therapy. Researchers have also investigated other factors. For instance, Glenny, O’Meara, Melville, Sheldon & Wilson (1997) studied whether family therapy is more effective for some kinds of the patient more than for others. They found that for anorexic patients being treated for anorexia, children are likely to benefit from family therapy than adults. Adults, however, are likely to benefit from behavioural therapy. However, their study added one more jewel in the crown of the family therapy model of treating patients. Their findings indicated that the use of family therapy could and does improve outcomes, both in terms of time needed to treat the patients and also in terms of helping the patients not to relapse. Their findings supported what Geist et a (2000) found about family therapy.

On the other hand, some scholars have been curious to know whether even as the concept of family therapy becomes widespread, it takes care of the nontraditional views of the family. Gay and same-sex marriages and families have, for instance, increased in the past few years, and it is necessary to know how such families are affected by family therapy. According to Clark and Serovich (1997), the development of family therapy as the de facto treatment mode for people with a mental health condition has for the longest time ignored those families that do not take the traditional structure. This view of family therapy as the de facto treatment mode has only concentrated at families that are viewed in the conventional sense of father, mother and children. According to them, the issue of gay, lesbian and other forms of gender orientations has to be looked at. According to Clark & Serovich (1997), gay marriages have been ignored for a long time. They did a study of family therapy research studies that have been done since 1975. They found that this other gender and sexual orientation have been ignored in the course of family therapy. While they agree on the fact that the use of family therapy can improve sales, they criticize it for lack of considering the modern service view of what a family can constitute.