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| Founder of Structural Family Therapy? |
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Salvador Minuchin
* Physician in Israeli army
* Nathan Ackerman child psychiatry
* Delinquent boys
* Director of Philadelphia Child Guidance Center
* Books: Families of the Slums, Advocate |
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| Structural theorists would say problems are maintained by: |
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| Dysfunctional family structures |
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| 3 Constructs that are essential |
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1) Family structure
2) Subsystems
3) Boundaries |
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| Families develop problems when there are pathologies in one or more 4 areas: |
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| Boundaries, alliances, triangles, hierarchy |
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| One unique "trademark" of Minuchin |
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| Having people physically move and change positions in session |
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| What are the primary factors for an individual's limits on behavior? |
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| Holons and qualities of boundaries |
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| Enmeshed families run risk of overemphasizing what? |
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| What are the 3 positions for alliance with families? |
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| Expert, distancer, challenger |
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| What are the 3 main strategies of Structural? |
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| Challenge to the Problem, Linear Control, and Punctuation of Events are what? |
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| Technique used what asking a couple to "dance" in session |
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Individual
Spousal
Parental
Sibling |
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| 3 main phases of Structural |
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1) Join the family
2) Map the family structure, boundaries, and hierarchy
3) Intervene to transform the structure |
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Boundaries are diffuse, loose, lack distinction
Small disturbances activate the whole system |
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* Boundaries are too rigid, lack cooperation and belonging
* Takes an extreme amount of effort to get attention |
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