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Welcome
to the
Multiple Family Group Therapy
Resource Center
Post Office Box 6063
Florence, South Carolina 29502-6063
(843) 667-4186 or Fax (843) 665-0428
"Building community by helping families help each other."
Two decades have passed since H. Peter Laqueur, MD left us with the legacy of Multiple Family Group Therapy (MFGT). Today most of the video tapes his wife Ria Laqueur and trainees recorded during his MFGT career remain stored at a hospital in Vermont.
At about the same time that Peter began working with Schizophrenic Families in Multiple Family Therapy (1950), George H. Orvin, MD began putting families of the adolescents in his care into multi-family groups. He and Peter did not know about each other. George is "honered with another fatherhood," as he calls it, the Father of Adolescent Multi-Family Group (MFG). George lives with his wife near Charleston, SC.
Dr. Orvin has published a book, Understanding the Adolescent, American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1995.
Today there is very little written about the many styles of MFGT that have evolved.
Those of us who began leading Multiple Family Therapy Groups had few resources from which to draw. Our styles developed from experience and our own theoretical frames of reference. The model took us prisoner and we fell in love with the little miracles that take place in the groups. As a result, a wealth of information on MFGT exists in America (possibly the world) which is untapped.
The founder of the resource center is Lewis N. Foster. He has been instrumental in developing and coordinating the MFGT Programs at Open House Counseling Service, Inc., (1981-1985) in Charlotte, NC and Bruce Hall Center (1985-1997) in Florence, SC, and the Billie Hardee Home for Boys (1997-present) Darlington, SC.
Lewis has been conducting workshops nationally for the past fifteen years and has logged thousands of hours in MFGT with chemically dependent and other at-risk families. He is certified in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and is experimenting with the use of Mustangs and families with adolescents in multi-family groups.
He sits on the Board of the H. Peter Laqueur Foundation with Paul Thorington, EdD, President and Spencer Wright, MA. Paul and Spencer were students of Peter prior to his death on March 15, 1979.
The resource center will serve as a vehicle for people or organizations who wish to contact the H. Peter Laqueur Foundation.
Please give us credit for our work and use the information in this website to the benefit of the citizens in your community.
Lewis N. Foster is a
Member, Who's Who in Mental Health on the Web
Article #2: Multiple Family Therapy In A Catagorie Of Its Own
Article #3: Your Multiple Family Group Therapy Style
Article #4: Schizophrenia and Multiple Family Group Therapy
Article #5: Evolution of Multiple Family Group Therapy
Article #6: H Peter Laqueur, MD Father of MFGT
Article #7: Addiction and MFGT: Birth of the Foster Model
Article #8: The Coliseum Model of MFGT
Article #9: A Model for MFGT In Adolescent Inpatient Treatment
Article #10: Multiple-Family Therapy: A Model For Social Worker's At Children's Homes