Structural Family Therapy Concepts
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In Structural Family Therapy, what is the role of the therapist in relation to the family structure?

  • To maintain the existing structure unchanged
  • To enforce the therapist's preferred structure onto the family
  • To intervene only when the family requests a change in structure
  • To perturb the system if the structure is too rigid or too diffuse (correct)
  • What is the concept in Structural Family Therapy that refers to rules of who interacts with whom, how, and when?

  • Enactment
  • Roles (correct)
  • Subsystems
  • Boundaries
  • According to Structural Family Therapy, what is the primary focus of changing to bring about the client's experience change?

  • Changing the individual's behaviors
  • Introducing new coping strategies
  • Exploring deep-seated emotions
  • Changing the family structure (correct)
  • What is the goal of termination in Structural Family Therapy when the problem is gone?

    <p>To facilitate second order change where the structure has changed</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What kind of assessment technique involves observing family interaction patterns through role-play?

    <p>Enactment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What concept suggests that symptoms help the family system survive?

    <p>Cybernetics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of attempted solutions in a family system?

    <p>They maintain problems and become problems themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In strategic therapy, what is the primary goal related to change?

    <p>Perturb the system with second order change</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What concept emphasizes that people are always communicating, even when they are not speaking?

    <p>You cannot not communicate</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which concept focuses on the difference that makes a difference in perturbing the family system?

    <p>Need to perturb system</p> Signup and view all the answers

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