Structural Family Therapy II

Question 1

What do Structural Family therapist believe is the cause of family problems?

Answer 1

By dysfunctional family organization.

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Question 2

Structural Family therapist don’t solve problem. What to they do as an alternative?

Answer 2

They seek to help the family make structural changes in order to help solve problems.
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Question 3

Name the & Structural interventions.

Answer 3

Joining and Accommodating
Enactment
Structural mapping 
Highlighting and modifying interactions
Boundary making
Unbalancing
Challenging unproductive assumptions
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Question 4

What is joining and accommodating?

Answer 4

Techniques employed to enter into a culture and respectfully observe in an effort to understand.
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Question 5

How is joining and accommodating accomplished?

Answer 5

Therapist track, listen, observe and respect each member’s perspective and adopt the family’s language and mannerisms.
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Question 6

What is Enactment?

Answer 6

Observing the family’s patterns and dynamics that might be contributing factors to the family’s problems.
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Question 7

What is the purpose of observing enactments?

Answer 7

They empower therapists with additional information which they can use to help the family make some key structural changes.
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Question 8

What is the purpose of Structural Mapping?

Answer 8

They reinforce efforts to re-conceptialize the problem from an individual issue to a structural/systemic issue.
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Question 9

What are 4ways ways that Structural Therapist modify interaction?

Answer 9

1. They pay attention to Process rather than Content.
2. They seek to intervene by forcefully creating intensity.
3. They may use empathy to deal with stalemates
4. They shape confidence
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Question 10

What are some was a Structural Therapist can strengthen boundaries in enmeshed families?

Answer 10

By interrupting or blocking
Meeting with the subfamilies separately
Facilitate engagement among disengaged families with ridge boundaries.
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Question 11

How is unbalancing accomplished?

Answer 11

By seeking to realign relationships and change the family structure.
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Question 12

How is challenging unproductive assumptions accomplished?

Answer 12

By challenging the way family members are seeing things or take a psycho-educational approach in an effort to restructure the family dynamics.
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