Concepts
These are considered smaller systems within the family
What is a subsystem?
You won't be successful in utilizing SFT if you don't do this first.
What is joining?
This person created Structural Family Therapy
Who is Sal Minuchin?
This can be helpful to understand a family's structure
What is an Eco-map?
This can result when families have no boundaries
What is enmeshment?
This concepts describes how a family is organized
What is structure?
Therapists are able to control transactional patterns with this technique
What is enactment?
The family, the problem, and the process of change.
What are the three areas of focus in SFT?
Hierarchy, boundaries, and subsystems, or sub relationships, within the family unit
What does the ecomap identify?
This is an alliance where some family members are against other family members and can be positive or negative
What is a coalition?
Invisible barriers that govern the contact that subsystems have with other subsystems
What are boundaries?
Realigning the relationships between subsystems
What is boundary making?
The name of school where Minuchin and colleagues developed SFT?
What is Wiltwyck School for delinquent boys?
The changes in the family structure that need to be made
What can an ecomap help the therapist see?
When a coalition is negative this can result
What is scapegoating?
Rules and hierarchy describes this about the family
How is structure organized?
Changing the relationship within a subsystem
What is unbalancing?
This is the decade when SFT was created?
What is the 1960s?
All members of the family system
Who should be included in the family ecomap?
When parents are in conflict and each tries to win a child over to their side, this can result. This might be seen during a divorce.
What is Triangulation?
Siblings demonstrate this kind of system.
What is the subsystems within the family?
When joining a family, it is important for the therapist to respect the family _________.
What is Hierarchy?
These are the two types of energy flow
What are positive and negative?
According to Family Systems Theory, instead of viewing the family as a "part", the family should be viewed as a ______.
What is Whole?
Two parents working together to provide a healthy environment is considered this
What is Alignment?