Structural Family Therapy
Overview of Structural Family Therapy
Overview of Structural Family Therapy
Structural family therapy was constructed as a result of the life work of Salvador Minuchin.
Within Minuchin’s work, he builds his treatment upon the traditional structural family therapy: brief strategic family therapy and ecosystemic structural family therapy. (Becvar,Becvar pg.125)
The therapist begins the session by looking into the family’s structure their boundaries,
Structural family therapy allows the therapist to transform into a coach. This coach takes the family and begins to walk through different drills which allows the family to see many different patterns. These patterns start to work through interaction and promotes a positive reinforcement …show more content…
(Becvar,Becvar 2009) Family therapy was a very effective tool in in the 1970s. It began to surface in many classrooms across the country.
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Overview of Structural Family Therapy
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Minuchin 's Basic Concepts
Structural family therapy is designed to show the family a way to learn from past patterns.
Family life experiences of whom ever is involved will show a pattern of mistakes and values.
Minuchin wanted the family to understand and view their family as a integrated whole or as a system. Just like any organization, there are levels of management or authority figure-heads. A family has to have structure in order to maintain balance and organization. Structural family therapy is a step up with three key theoretical concepts or constructs: structure, subsystems, and boundaries.(Gehart pg.135) Structure is a way to see how the family interacts with each other; who is respected and who is the outcast. Why did these individuals get their reputation? What life choices did they make to receive the respect or outcast status? This concept is a result of different patterns and structures that are implied with a set of covert rules of which the …show more content…
(Becvar, Becvar pg. 174) Subsystems are looking into two different individual’s pasts that might help bring light to the issue at hand. It looks into how each parent was raised according to their parents. Some parents want their children to have more or less than what they had due to issues that arose with in their own lives. The therapist needs to imply that in a well functioning spouse’s subsystem, there is give and take on both parts. Each spouse brings a different prospective that needs to be respected and acknowledged. Together the parent can come to a conclusion that satisfies both parties. This is called Parental Subsystem. Sibling subsystems allows the children to be children.
As parents, we want the child to experiment with peer relationships. When an issue arrises, the children can come up with a solution based on the parent’s guidelines and boundaries.
(Becvar,Becvar p. 177) Minuchin wants the family to put into place a set of rules and boundaries
Overview of Structural Family
Overview of Structural Family Therapy
Structural family therapy was constructed as a result of the life work of Salvador Minuchin.
Within Minuchin’s work, he builds his treatment upon the traditional structural family therapy: brief strategic family therapy and ecosystemic structural family therapy. (Becvar,Becvar pg.125)
The therapist begins the session by looking into the family’s structure their boundaries,
Structural family therapy allows the therapist to transform into a coach. This coach takes the family and begins to walk through different drills which allows the family to see many different patterns. These patterns start to work through interaction and promotes a positive reinforcement …show more content…
(Becvar,Becvar 2009) Family therapy was a very effective tool in in the 1970s. It began to surface in many classrooms across the country.
!
Overview of Structural Family Therapy
!3
Minuchin 's Basic Concepts
Structural family therapy is designed to show the family a way to learn from past patterns.
Family life experiences of whom ever is involved will show a pattern of mistakes and values.
Minuchin wanted the family to understand and view their family as a integrated whole or as a system. Just like any organization, there are levels of management or authority figure-heads. A family has to have structure in order to maintain balance and organization. Structural family therapy is a step up with three key theoretical concepts or constructs: structure, subsystems, and boundaries.(Gehart pg.135) Structure is a way to see how the family interacts with each other; who is respected and who is the outcast. Why did these individuals get their reputation? What life choices did they make to receive the respect or outcast status? This concept is a result of different patterns and structures that are implied with a set of covert rules of which the …show more content…
(Becvar, Becvar pg. 174) Subsystems are looking into two different individual’s pasts that might help bring light to the issue at hand. It looks into how each parent was raised according to their parents. Some parents want their children to have more or less than what they had due to issues that arose with in their own lives. The therapist needs to imply that in a well functioning spouse’s subsystem, there is give and take on both parts. Each spouse brings a different prospective that needs to be respected and acknowledged. Together the parent can come to a conclusion that satisfies both parties. This is called Parental Subsystem. Sibling subsystems allows the children to be children.
As parents, we want the child to experiment with peer relationships. When an issue arrises, the children can come up with a solution based on the parent’s guidelines and boundaries.
(Becvar,Becvar p. 177) Minuchin wants the family to put into place a set of rules and boundaries
Overview of Structural Family