Exam 12: Structural Family Therapy

If successful, structural family therapy results in more functional boundaries and more positive ways of interacting among family members.

Subsystems may include all the following except:

This approach has a focus on:

"Unbalancing" involves

An alliance between specific family members against a third member is called a(n):

Structural family therapy is said to be an approach that is sensitive to the effect of culture on families.

Structural family therapy is collaborative approach in which the therapist and client family share responsibility for setting up and directing therapeutic activities and interventions.

A parentified child is considered a dysfunctional role because, in the structural approach, it is best that parents are placed in charge of children.

In order to highlight and modify interactions in the family, structural therapists must use intensity to

In structural approach to working with families, the focus is on _____, not _____.

The structural family therapy approach has been criticized for being too simple and lacking complexity.

The technique of changing a perception by explaining a situation from a different context is called:

There are four techniques for 'joining' with family members. Which technique is how a therapist joins the family by making personal adjustments in order to achieve a therapeutic alliance?

_____ are ways that family members join together or oppose one another in carrying out family activities.

Boundaries are physical and psychological factors that separate people from one another and help organize them. The healthiest boundaries are: