Structural Family Therapy Quiz

Adults, typically parents

Disengagement

Diffuse boundaries

<p>To identify boundaries, structures, and relationships</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Functioning as a team to achieve tasks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To gain temporary acceptance into the family</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To alter hierarchical position</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To observe dysfunctional aspects of the system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Paying attention to family members' interactions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Highlighting and modifying interactions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reinforcing structural change</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To alter dysfunctional transactional patterns</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Restructuring family organization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subgroups based on gender and generation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Active and involved</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Remodeling the family’s organizational structure</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How family members group together or relate to one another</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stagnation and dysfunction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How a family partitions itself based on different needs and tasks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alignments against another family member</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To mimic family members' behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To observe family dynamics in action</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To challenge existing family alliances</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The therapist</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Action-oriented approach that teaches action precedes understanding. Symptoms are viewed as a consequence of family transactional patterns and for those symptoms to change, the family structure must be reorganized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Change occurs by remodeling the family’s organizational structure to include clear boundaries and a proper family hierarchy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Active and involved (stage director) Work in collaboration with the family Joins with family by adapting to their style of interaction, including their affective range, mannerisms, and language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The invisible set of functional demands that organizes the ways in which the family members interact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subgroups based on gender, generation, and developmental tasks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This refers to how family members group together or relate to one another. They may include affiliations or splits from individuals or subsystems; they could be short-term or ongoing; however, they all develop for the purpose of maintaining homeostasis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alignments where two or more family members join together to form a bond against another family member.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How a family partitions itself based on different needs and tasks. They consist of two or more members of the system based on common characteristics such as gender, generation, interests, or function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To observe and understand the family's transactional patterns and interactions in real-time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It results from over-involvement and lack of differentiation between family members, leading to blurred boundaries and individual autonomy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To adapt to the family's style of interaction, including their affective range, mannerisms, and language, in order to join with the family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Change occurs by remodeling the family’s organizational structure to include clear boundaries and a proper family hierarchy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Family mapping is used by the therapist outside of the therapeutic session to identify boundaries, structures, and relationships within the family system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Complementarity refers to when two or more individuals function as a team and recognize that they depend on each other to achieve particular tasks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The therapist gains temporary acceptance into the family by engaging with individual members and subsystems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Enactments encourage the family to act out a relationship dynamic during the therapeutic session, providing the therapist an opportunity to observe dysfunctional aspects of the system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The goal of unbalancing is to support someone who is in a one-down position with the goal of altering their hierarchical position.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary focus is to highlight and modify interactions, utilize enactments of issues to challenge participants, and unbalance the system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subsystems refer to smaller units or groupings within the family system, such as parent-child or sibling relationships.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Disengagement is caused by rigid/inflexible boundaries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary goal is to help the family understand how family structure (relationships and hierarchies) can be changed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leadership and direction are typically provided by adults, usually parents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Enmeshment is caused by diffused boundaries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Enmeshment results from diffused boundaries, where boundaries are blurred and there is little sense of separateness within the family system.</p> Signup and view all the answers