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What is the consequence of rigid or inflexible boundaries within the family system?
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What does enmeshment result from in the family system?
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What does the concept of 'alliances' refer to in structural family therapy?
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What does 'alignment' refer to in the context of structural family therapy?
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What is the primary consequence of rigid boundaries within the family system according to structural family therapy?
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What is the primary source of leadership and direction in the family system according to structural family therapy?
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What are the underpinnings of Salvador Minuchin's structural family therapy?
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According to Minuchin, how does change occur in structural family therapy?
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What is the purpose of family mapping in structural family therapy?
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What is the primary focus during the early/middle phase of treatment in the family system?
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Study Notes
Structural Family Therapy
- Founded by Salvador Minuchin, focusing on an action-oriented approach.
- Symptoms are seen as a consequence of family transactional patterns, and changing these patterns requires reorganizing the family structure.
Theory of Change
- Change occurs by remodeling the family's organizational structure to include clear boundaries and a proper family hierarchy.
Role of the Therapist
- Active and involved, acting as a "stage director" who collaborates with the family.
- Joins with the family by adapting to their style of interaction, including affective range, mannerisms, and language.
Main Concepts
Family Structure
- The invisible set of functional demands that organizes the ways in which family members interact.
Alliances and Coalitions
- Subgroups based on gender, generation, and developmental tasks.
- Coalitions: Alignments where two or more family members join together to form a bond against another family member.
Subsystems
- How a family partitions itself based on different needs and tasks, consisting of two or more members with common characteristics.
Power Hierarchy
- Leadership and direction must be provided by adults, typically parents.
Boundaries
- Rigid/Inflexible: Clearly defined and not open to change, leading to disengagement.
- Diffuse: Blurred boundaries, causing enmeshment.
- Clear: Balance between separateness (I) and belonging (we) in the family system.
Family Mapping
- A diagram developed and used by the therapist to identify boundaries, structures, and relationships within the family system.
Complementarity
- When two or more individuals function as a team, recognizing their interdependence to achieve particular tasks.
Mimesis
- The therapist tracks the family's style of communication and behaviors, then mimics it to gain acceptance.
Joining
- The therapist gains temporary acceptance into the family by engaging with individual members and subsystems, allowing them to eventually disrupt and alter dysfunctional aspects of the system.
Reframe
- A technique that redefines the original interpretation of an issue, offering a new, more constructive perspective.
Enactments
- An intervention that encourages the family to act out a relationship dynamic during the therapeutic session, allowing the therapist to observe dysfunctional aspects of the system.
Tracking
- The therapist pays close attention to family members and their relationships during an enactment or spontaneous behavioral sequence, noticing boundaries, coalitions, roles, rules, etc.
Unbalancing
- Supporting someone in a one-down position to alter their hierarchical position, promoting change.
Treatment Goals
- Help the family understand how family structure can be changed.
- Create clear and healthier boundaries.
- Strengthen the spousal subsystem and the family's hierarchy.
- Restructure the family system to allow for symptom relief and constructive problem-solving.
- Alter dysfunctional transactional patterns.
Interventions
- Acts like a "distant relative" through joining with the family.
- Deliberately increases stress through enactments.
- Observes interactions during enactments and spontaneous behavioral sequences.
- Reframes presenting symptoms as responses to the family structure.
- Disrupts dysfunctional patterns of communication and replaces them with functional interactions.
- Reinforces healthy boundaries and disrupts unhealthy ones through boundary making.
- Challenges the family's outdated rules.
- Explores how new patterns of interaction can be integrated into the family.
Phases of Treatment
- Beginning: Joining and accommodating, assessing family interactions through family mapping, learning about coalitions, subsystems, alliances, and reframing presenting problems.
- Early/Middle: Highlighting and modifying interactions, utilizing enactments to challenge participants and unbalance the system.
- End: Reviewing progress, reinforcing structural change, and providing tools for the future.
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Test your knowledge of structural family therapy with this quiz. Explore the underpinnings and action-oriented approach of the founder, Salvador Minuchin, and understand how change occurs through remodeling family organizational structure.