Structural Family Counseling. Power Point Presentation

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Structural Family Counseling is a therapeutic approach developed by Salvador Minuchin that focuses on the organization and interaction patterns within a family system. The primary goal is to identify and address dysfunctional family structures and dynamics that contribute to emotional and behavioral issues.

In Structural Family Counseling, therapists work with families to map out their relationships and hierarchies, helping them to understand how their roles and interactions impact family functioning. The approach emphasizes the importance of family boundaries, subsystems (such as parental or sibling subsystems), and the alignment of family members in a way that promotes healthier communication and problem-solving.

Therapists using this model actively engage with the family to restructure their interactions, often through techniques such as role-playing, boundary-setting, and reframing issues. By modifying the family structure and improving communication patterns, Structural Family Counseling aims to enhance family cohesion and resolve conflicts, leading to more adaptive and supportive family relationships.

Overall, Structural Family Counseling provides a framework for understanding and transforming the complex web of family relationships, promoting emotional well-being and functional family dynamics.

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2. introduction Salvador Minuchin: Founder of Structural Family Counseling Formulated Theory: Developed the theory while director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic in the 1960s Braulio Montalvo: Notable contributor to Structural Family Counseling Jay Haley: Notable contributor to Structural Family Counseling 1 /8 www.seribangash.com

3. VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE Family Structure: Every family has a structure that dictates how it organizes and interacts. Influence of Structure: The family structure impacts its members positively or negatively. Hierarchical Structure: When a family has a clear hierarchical structure, relationships among members are generally positive. Lack of Structure: Without a defined structure, families experience increased stress, rigidity, chaos, and dysfunction. Crisis Situations: In the absence of structure, developmental or situational events can lead to family crises. Coalitions: Alliances between specific members against another member may form. Cross-Generational Alliances: Alliances between members of different generations can occur. Impact on Growth: Such alliances (coalitions or cross-generational) hinder the healthy growth of individuals and the family as a whole. www.seribangash.com 2/8

4. ROLE OF THE COUNSELOR Role of Practitioners: Structural family counseling practitioners act as both observers and experts in making interventions. Objective: Their goal is to modify and change the underlying structure of a family. Focus on Changes: They advocate for structural changes within the family unit, particularly in interactional patterns within subsystems like the marital dyad. Boundary Setting: Practitioners work on establishing clear boundaries among family members. Position of Leadership: Counselors join the family in a leadership role, mapping the family's structure in their minds. Assessment and Intervention: They identify dysfunctional patterns and work to help the family change these patterns. www.seribangash.com 3/8

5. GOALS Emphasis on Action: Focus is on taking action rather than gaining insight to make the family more functional. Updating Rules: Replace outdated rules with new ones that align with the family’s current realities. Subsystem Differentiation: Stress on clear distinctions and differentiation between family subsystems. Parental Authority: Special attention is given to ensuring parents are in charge of their children. Cultural Context Change: Successful interventions lead to changes in the family’s cultural context. www.seribangash.com 4/8

6. TECHNIQUES Family Interaction: Work with how family members interact to address nonproductive behaviors and disengaged or enmeshed positions. Physical Environment: Rearrange the physical environment to prompt different behaviors, such as having family members face each other during conversations. Reframing: Help the family view problems from a different, more positive perspective. Behavioral Labeling: For instance, a child’s misbehavior might be reframed from “incorrigible” to “naughty” to reduce the perception of pathology. www.seribangash.com 5/8

7. Other structural TECHNIQUES www.seribangash.com Punctuation: Selectively describe a transaction, such as declaring a person competent at a specific moment, like when they are silent. Unbalancing: Support an individual or subsystem against the rest of the family (e.g., supporting a daughter’s request for a later curfew). Enactment: Bring problematic behaviors into treatment sessions to demonstrate and challenge existing patterns and rules. Boundary Making: Create psychological boundaries between individuals or subsystems to enhance development and functioning. Intensity: Use strong affect, repeated intervention, or prolonged pressure to change maladaptive transactions and achieve goals. Restructuring: Alter family hierarchies or interaction patterns to prevent the maintenance of problems (e.g., uniformly refusing to obey certain requests). Adding Cognitive Constructions: Include verbal components like advice, pragmatic fictions, and paradoxes to complement the action-oriented approach and motivate change 6/8

8. STRENGTHS AND CONTRIBUTIONS Versatility: Suitable for families across different socioeconomic levels. Effectiveness: Proven effective in treating issues such as juvenile delinquency, alcoholism, and anorexia. Cultural Sensitivity: Appropriate for use in multicultural settings. Clarity: Provides clear definitions of terms and procedures, making it easy to apply. Pragmatic Focus: Emphasizes symptom removal and practical reorganization of the family. www.seribangash.com 7/8

9. LIMITATIONS www.seribangash.com Complexity and Focus: Critics argue that the approach may lack complexity, could be sexist, and focuses too much on the present. Influence of Strategic Therapy: There are concerns that structural therapy overlaps with or is influenced by strategic family therapy, making it difficult to distinguish between the two. Counselor Control: The counselor’s control over the change process may limit the family’s empowerment, potentially affecting their long-term adjustment and change 8/8

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