Structural Family Therapy Analysis

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The goals of structural family therapy is to get the family members to participate in an active experience of change beginning with an enactment where the family get to explore current concrete issues including lack of effective communication, which is what the Singh family is experiencing (Purple book). It looks to help build on the strengths of the family members and to also help them learn to better problem for solve for any future problems (Purple book). This involves the counsellor to actively engage with families to help them get rid of unhelpful pathological transactional patterns while also building on strengths to help bring about effective solutions (Purple book).
The role of the counsellor involves encouraging family members to

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