How does structural therapy address the problems in a family?
By charting the relationship between family members and between subsets of family.
What does the therapy do?
Tries to disrupt dysfunctional relationships within the family?
What does structural therapy focus on?
family organization and boundaries and the ways in which these structures govern interactional patterns.
Structural therapist attempt to
unbalance the family.
Structural therapist also
reframe the problem
Solution Focused believe that
the attempted solution would often perpetuate the problem, rather than solving it
Solution focused also believed who is the expert?
he client is the expert
Who believed if it is not broken, do not ?x it
Solution Focused
Examples of solution focused questions:
How did you do that?, How did you decide to do that?, How did you manage to do that?
What does Solution Focused focus on?
Finding solutions rather than understanding the problem.
Social Constructivist Family Therapy
Based on the concept that reality is an intersubjective pheonmenon that is constructed in conversation.
MRI group focused on
problems
Solution Focused Family Therapy encourages
clients to increase behaviors that work well and notice situations in which the problem does not occur
Constructivist Family Therapy is based
on postmodern philosoph
Conjoint Marital Therapy was developed by
Virginia Satir
Conjoint Marital Therapy is when
both both partners are seen together by one or two therapists.
Conjoint Martial Therapy is designed for couples
without children
Conjoint Martial Therapy works well
when one or both partner have a psychiatric disorder or dx such as alcoholism, gambling, extramarital affair
Collaborative Couples Therapy theory
Dan Wiles
Concurrent Family Therapy is when
therapist works with both spouses at different times
Constructivist Family Therapy
based on postmodern philosophy which emphasizes the concept that a person's knowledge of the world is based on his/her perception and internal construction of the truth and the belief that reality can never really be known.
Cognitive Behavioral therapy believes
Symptoms are learned responses that are caused by dysfunctional reinforcement
Cognitive Behavioral therapy is usually
time limited and symptom focused
Cognitive Behavioral believe
that all behavior is learned