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| Boundaries between family members are of particular interest to |
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| Minuchin's structural Family Therapy |
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| Family structure holds the rules that have been developed in the course of family life to determine |
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| which members interact with whom and in what way |
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| Parts of the family structure are |
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| For a family to function, parental,sibling and parent-child |
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| In sibling subsystems, children learn how to relate to each other and as a result |
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| learn how to build coalitions , meet their own needs and how to deal with their parents |
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| Alliances in a child-parent subsystem may arise dependent on the |
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| roles, skills and problems of the individual members |
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| Minuchin's technique of boundary marking changes |
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| boundaries or interactions among individual family members |
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| Boundary permeability describes the type of contact that members within |
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| family systems and subsystems have with one another |
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| Highly permeable boundaries exist in |
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| non-permeable or rigid boundaries are found |
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| In general,boundaries refer to how a family is organized and follows the rules; they do not address |
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| the issue of how family members work together or fail to work together |
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| Alignments refer to the ways that family members |
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| join with each other or oppose each other in dealing with an activity |
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| Coalitions refer to alliances between family members |
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| against another family member. |
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| Minuchin uses the term, 'triangle' more specifically than Bowen; |
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| each parent demands that the child side with him against the other parent. |
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| Power within the family shifts,depending |
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| upon alignments and coalitions |
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| Power refers to who makes the decision and |
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| who carries out the decision |
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| In an enmeshed family, power is not clear and children may ask |
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| one parent permission even if the other said,"no" |
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| Minuchin's sTructural Family therapy is concerned with the |
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| present structure not across generations, like Bowen |
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| Working to alter coalitions and alliances to develop a well-functioning family |
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| is a goal of Structural Family Therapy |
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| Another goal of Structural Family therapy is to |
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| establish appropriate boundaries within a family |
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| Techniques of Structural Family therapy are |
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accommodating, Joining, Enactment
Intensity, Changing boundaries -unbalancing and Reframing |
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| Structural therapists achieve intensity by |
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selective
regulation of affect, repetition, and duration. Tone, vol-
ume, pacing, and choice of words can be used to raise
affective intensity. |
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| Shaping competence is another method of modifying |
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interactions, and it’s a hallmark of structural
family therapy. Intensity is used to block the stream of
interactions. Shaping competence is like altering the
direction of flow. By reinforcing positives, structural
therapists help family members use functional alter-
natives that are already in their repertoire. |
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An alternative strategy is
to use |
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empathy to help family members get beneath
the surface of their defensive wrangling. |
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Unbalancing is part of a struggle for change that
sometimes takes on the appearance of |
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combat. When
a therapist says to a father that he’s not doing enough
or to a mother that she’s excluding her husband, it may
seem that the combat is between the therapist and the
family—that he or she is attacking them. But the real
combat is between them and fear—fear of change. |
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Unbalancing is part of a struggle for change that
sometimes takes on the appearance of |
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combat. When
a therapist says to a father that he’s not doing enough
or to a mother that she’s excluding her husband, it may
seem that the combat is between the therapist and the
family—that he or she is attacking them. But the real
combat is between them and fear—fear of change. |
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Changing the way fam-
ily members relate to each other offers alternative views
of their situation. The converse is also true: |
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Changing
the way family members view their situation enables
them to change the way they relate to each other. |
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The first step (“Is the Customer Always
Right?”) is to challenge the family certainty that the
primary problem is located in the internal machinery
of the identified patient in a process of probing but re-
spectful questioning. The second step (“The Support-
ing Cast”) is to explore what family members may be
doing to perpetuate the presenting problem. The third
step |
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(“The Origin of the Specious”) is to explore past experiences that may organize and distort family mem-
bers’ perceptions of the identified patient and thus per-
petuate the presenting problem. The fourth step (“New
Beginnings”) is to explore what family members are
willing to do in order to make productive changes. The
authors continue to emphasize the need for structural
assessment, the use of enactments, and working with
experiential intensity |
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the structural model has evolved to include a some-
what greater emphasis on |
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| Joining and Accommodating. Creates an |
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| empathetic bond and gathers information |
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| Enactment – Getting family members to |
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| interact with one another in a manner that illuminates problematic sequences |
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| Structural Mapping – Preliminary assessments based on the |
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| interaction in the first session. Structural assessments take into account both the problem the family presents and the structural dynamics they display |
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| • Highlighting and modifying interactions – Identification of |
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| problematic transactions. Focus on process and not content |
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| Boundary making – Designed to strengthen |
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| boundaries. Family members are urged to speak for themselves, interruptions are blocked, and dyads are used to help conversations finish without intrusion |
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| Unbalancing – Emphasis on the |
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| realignment of relationships in subsystems. The therapist joins one individual or subsystem to upset the status quo |
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| Challenging unproductive assumptions – Focus on |
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| changing the way family members relate to each other and offering alternative views of their situation |
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