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Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Structural Family Therapy Associated with Salvador Minuchin. Focused on the balance between stability & change, openness & closedness. Its efficacy has been demonstrated with a wide variety of family configurations.

Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Structural Family Therapy: Basic Concepts Familial patterns of interaction define the structure & organization of the system. Three subsystems (spousal, parental, and sibling) must have appropriate boundaries around them. Dysfunctional boundaries may be rigid, allowing little information in or out, or diffuse, allowing too much information in or out. Clear boundaries are firm yet flexible.

Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Structural Family Therapy: Therapeutic Techniques Structural maps visually represent boundaries and hierarchies between subsystems. Therapist must join with the family to affect structural change.

Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Strategic Family Therapy Associated with Jay Haley & the Milan group. Views manipulation as an inevitable part of being in relationships.

Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Strategic Family Therapy: Basic Concepts People behave in ways that are consistent with their conceptual frames; thus, change the way a problem is defined and you change the problem. Families with symptomatic members lack access to alternative conceptual frameworks. Thus, symptoms make sense given the context in which they occur.

Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2003 Strategic Family Therapy: Therapeutic Techniques Therapy is problem-focused. Goal is to change conceptual frameworks. Reframe: an intervention that takes the problem out of its old context and places it in a new one. –The new frame must be acceptable to the family. Paradox: an intervention that calls for “more of the same.”

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