In Structural Family Therapy, an intervention that the therapist would apply to the next counseling session would be to examine the invisible rules in the family that governs their function; the therapist would examine all the crossed, ignored, distorted boundaries that the family has in their familial structure (Bitter, 2014). Enactments are another intervention that would help families to form clearer boundaries (Gehart, 2015). This would help Jeanie and her family because it would prevent her for thinking or speaking for her children.
The first phase of phase of reenactments is to speak with all family members to try to modify the family structure (Gehart, 2015). The therapist can do this by understanding all the rules and assumptions and …show more content…
For example: the therapist can say: “I understand that you got into a family argument last night. Can you please reenact that for me?” Another question is: “Can you act out the way your family is talking with you, Megan?” The purpose is to have the family listen and watch for problematic interactional sequences, and it would allow the family to correct the problems that they are seeing. The desired outcome is to reduce the interactional problems in the family, and introduce the family to new preferred behaviors.
The purpose of examining the invisible rules of the family is to understand all the rules that the family is operating with as a family. The goal is to try to sort out the rules, have the family look at their rules, and their boundaries. The family would sort through the rules and work through the different rules to eliminate, create, or re-evaluate how the rules would help each family member.
Each family member would be the target of the intervention. Each person would look at each rule and each boundary to evaluate the purpose of the rule or boundary to see how the rule can be revised that would better help each member of the
The first phase of phase of reenactments is to speak with all family members to try to modify the family structure (Gehart, 2015). The therapist can do this by understanding all the rules and assumptions and …show more content…
For example: the therapist can say: “I understand that you got into a family argument last night. Can you please reenact that for me?” Another question is: “Can you act out the way your family is talking with you, Megan?” The purpose is to have the family listen and watch for problematic interactional sequences, and it would allow the family to correct the problems that they are seeing. The desired outcome is to reduce the interactional problems in the family, and introduce the family to new preferred behaviors.
The purpose of examining the invisible rules of the family is to understand all the rules that the family is operating with as a family. The goal is to try to sort out the rules, have the family look at their rules, and their boundaries. The family would sort through the rules and work through the different rules to eliminate, create, or re-evaluate how the rules would help each family member.
Each family member would be the target of the intervention. Each person would look at each rule and each boundary to evaluate the purpose of the rule or boundary to see how the rule can be revised that would better help each member of the