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 Key figures: Alfred Adler, Rudolf Dreikurs, Oscar Christensen, Len Sperry, Jon Carlson, Paul Peluso, Bill Nicoll, Jim BitterAdler was the first practitioner-theorist to speak of social embeddedness, family atmosphere, family interactions, the family constellation, and birth order, and he was the first psychologist to engage in family practice and interventions. His initial work with families and communities was systematized and expanded by Rudolf Dreikurs, who was, during his lifetime, the most prominent of Adlerian practitioners in the United States. Adler’s focus represented a huge paradigm shift in the development of psychodynamic theories, just as the general field of family counseling and practice would be another paradigm shift away from a focus on private, individual work.