The Pros And Cons Of Strategic Family Therapy

When it comes to the final project our group decided to focus on family systems therapy. We decided that this would be an interesting form of therapy to look into also was nice that it is one that we learned about at the end of the semester. When it comes to family systems therapy the idea is that the family is seen as a whole unit and when something effects one person in the unit it actually effects all members of that unit. When looking at one person in that unit the best way to understand them is by looking at interactions that individual shares with everyone else in the family unit. The main idea of family systems therapy is that the symptoms are seen as a manifestation of dysfunction in the family unit. There are six different main viewpoints when it comes to family systems therapy. Those viewpoints are Adlerian family therapy, multi-generational family therapy, human validation process model, structural family therapy, and strategic family therapy. When it comes to this paper and our group, we decided to divide the six different viewpoints of family systems therapy up between the five of us. Therefore I decided to focus upon the viewpoint of strategic family therapy. Strategic family therapy focuses on solving present problems that are effecting the families’ behavior patterns and changing …show more content…
Strategic family therapy is more focused on the problems in the here and now and the future rather than the past. Their goal is to eliminate presenting problems and changing the dysfunctional patterns that are present. Family therapy focuses on the family as a unit and work to change behavioral problems from there. The focus of this form of therapy is the family not so much the individual. Both of these articles had important information on strategic family therapy and family therapy as a