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Structural Family Therapy Overview
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-Salvador Minuchin
-the therapist actually enters, or joins with the family system as a catalyst for positive change. -Joining is a goal early in therapeutic relationship -charting the relationships between family members with diagrams -charts represent power dynamics and boundaries between subsystems -draws from systems and communications theories -a family is functional or dysfunctional based upon its ability to adapt to various stressors (extra-familial, idiosyncratic, developmental); which, in turn rests upon the clarity and appropriateness of its subsystem boundaries -Boundaries are characterized along a continuum from enmeshment through semi-diffuse permeability to rigidity -Dysfunctional families exhibit mixed subsystems (i.e, coalitions) and improper power hierarchies -goal is to promote a restructuring of the family system |
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In Structural Family Therapy, how does the therapist enact change?
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By joining with the family system and upsetting the current power dynamics and boundaries.
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In Structural Family Therapy, what does charting/diagramming represent?
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Power dynamics and boundaries between subsystems.
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In Structural Family Therapy, a family is seen as functional or dysfunctional based on what?
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Its ability to adapt to various stressors, including extra-familial, idiosyncratic, and developmental stressors.
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In Structural Family Therapy, what does a family's ability to adapt to stressors rest upon?
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The appropriateness and clarity of its subsystem boundaries.
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In Structural Family Therapy, boundaries are characterized on a continuum from ? to ?
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Enmeshment through semi-diffuse permeability through rigidity.
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Who is mainly associated with Structural Family Therapy?
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Salvador Minuchin
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At what point in the therapy process does the therapist join with the family?
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Early
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Structural Family Therapy draws from what 2 theoretical bases?
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Systems Theory
Communications Theory |
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Dysfunctional families exhibit what?
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Mixed subsystems, such as coalitions, and improper hierarchies.
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What is the goal of Structural Family Therapy?
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Promote a restructuring of the family system.
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In Structural Family Therapy, the therapist restructures the family by
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-actualizing transactional patterns
-marking boundaries -escalating stress -assigning tasks -utilizing the symptom -manipulating mood -providing support, education, guidance |
