Social workers use many different forms of approaches and methods when working with families. The different types of therapy, approaches and models give insight to the social worker.
The Brief Strategic Family Therapy(BSFT) involves using different strategies by the by therapist to eliminate undesired behavior. The idea behind strategic family therapy is to assign tasks to families to change those aspects of the system that continues the behavior that is causing the issues. According to BSFT focuses primarily on the present interactions that occur between family members and are observable to the therapist. The therapy can be delivered in home or in a clinical setting depending on the needs of the family.
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Reframing will create motivational change for the family. Families are not just coming together for therapy they are also assigned tasks to work on at home. The goals for SFT should be to help reframe the family dynamics rather than removing the adolescent form the home. The goal is to focus on for this approach are to eliminate or reduce the adolescent problem behaviors and to change family interactions associated with the problems.
According one author BSFT has four important steps that coincide with key principles previously discussed. Firstly the BSFT family and therapist work as a team and developing a therapeutic alliance is essential. It is important that therapist show respect towards each family member and the family as a whole. Secondly the focus is on family relations that are supportive and problem relations that may affect the adolescent’s behaviors or interfere with the parent’s ability to correct …show more content…
“Substance abuse doesn’t exist on its own,” said Hervis. “It’s a conglomerate of symptoms that go together — a substance-abusing adolescent is also involved in antisocial behavior, delinquency, disobedience and problems with the family.” The efficacy of BSFT has been studied in multiple randomized federally funded trails in which showed a reduce amount of antisocial behaviors and substance abuse along with improvements in family
The Brief Strategic Family Therapy(BSFT) involves using different strategies by the by therapist to eliminate undesired behavior. The idea behind strategic family therapy is to assign tasks to families to change those aspects of the system that continues the behavior that is causing the issues. According to BSFT focuses primarily on the present interactions that occur between family members and are observable to the therapist. The therapy can be delivered in home or in a clinical setting depending on the needs of the family.
Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) …show more content…
Reframing will create motivational change for the family. Families are not just coming together for therapy they are also assigned tasks to work on at home. The goals for SFT should be to help reframe the family dynamics rather than removing the adolescent form the home. The goal is to focus on for this approach are to eliminate or reduce the adolescent problem behaviors and to change family interactions associated with the problems.
According one author BSFT has four important steps that coincide with key principles previously discussed. Firstly the BSFT family and therapist work as a team and developing a therapeutic alliance is essential. It is important that therapist show respect towards each family member and the family as a whole. Secondly the focus is on family relations that are supportive and problem relations that may affect the adolescent’s behaviors or interfere with the parent’s ability to correct …show more content…
“Substance abuse doesn’t exist on its own,” said Hervis. “It’s a conglomerate of symptoms that go together — a substance-abusing adolescent is also involved in antisocial behavior, delinquency, disobedience and problems with the family.” The efficacy of BSFT has been studied in multiple randomized federally funded trails in which showed a reduce amount of antisocial behaviors and substance abuse along with improvements in family