Peter Stratton , PhD, Dip Psychotherapy, FBPsS, is an Emeritus Professor of Family Therapy. He is a Systemic Family Therapist and developmental psychologist with broad research interests and involvement in statutory processes that affect families. His research includes development of an outcome measure for families in therapy (the SCORE project); the effects of basing training on concepts of active learning and the dialogical construction of self; attributional analyses of family causal beliefs and blaming; applications of systemic science to family wellbeing. He is Joint Editor of the journal Human Systems; Chair of European Family Therapy Association Research Committee and recently Academic and Research Development Officer for the Association for Family Therapy and Chair of the UKCP Research Faculty. Founding Director of Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre and Managing Director of The Psychology Business Ltd.
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