Structural Family Therapy

main assumptions

create clear boundaries and re-align hierarchies

process: join, map, intervene, review

boundaries

rules for maintaining distance/closeness

clear, diffuse, rigid

hierarchies

parent/child relationships

sufficient, insufficient, excessive

subsystems

ineffectual challenger, shaper, beneficiary

therapeutic relationship

joining and memesis

roles: producer, stage director, protagonist, narrator

enactments

ask family to recreate conflict and intervene to bring awareness to new interactional patternsst

structural assessment

role of sx, subsystems, cross generational coalitions, boundaries, hierarchies, complementarity, developmental age, strengths

cross generational coalitions

parent and child vs other parent

family mapping

to see boundaries and relationships typically only used by th

exploring alternatives

unbalancing, crisis inductions