Lecture 7 Flashcards
Structural therapy
Salvador minuchin Russian/ Jewish born Argentina
Developed 60’s/70s
Founder of therapeutic enactments
Troubled youth
Time limited and goal oriented
Concepts
Wholeness of family system
Hierarchical organisation of the family
Transactional patterns
Rules
Subsystems
Concepts
Boundaries
Permeable
Rubber fence ( can’t get through )
Dysfunctional family - does not nuture it’s members
Differentiation
Child protection
Concepts
Enmeshed families - conflicts/ bickering. Over protective and covering up conflicts. Over involved, too stressed,
Disengaged families - cut off members / uninvolved parents/ families with children for parents
Concepts
Alignments - who joins with who and works together
Power - who is influential and has authority
Coalitions. - ganging up between members ( ie mother and son gang up against Dad)
Goals of structural therapy
Help family reorganise and enhance for potential growth when structure is changed
More interested in patterns in the present
Dance with patterns not the family of origin
Point out patterns,
Then call to action unbalancing stage
Develop clear boundaries
Process of therapy
Looking at historical/ social context
Observing hierarchy, subsystems, and flexibility
What part of system is under functioning
Alignments, coalitions
Accomodating - repair modify
Without pushing , gain sense of family patterns
Process of therapy
Monitoring - show me
Enactment - stage it amplify
Look at theme (value,practises, life theme )
Reframe
Refine boundaries, new rules, pattern, family traditions
Critique
Functional language
Focused on mother a the fulcrum of change
The importance of knowing past
Minuchin addressed power actively
Review
Minuchin focused on low income families
Structural family therapy
View of family from this position
Assumptions
Concepts
Process of therapy
