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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Enactment (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What concept suggests that symptoms help the family system survive?

<p>Cybernetics (B)</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 (D)</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 (C)</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 (C)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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