Getting Started
The SFA should be scheduled within this many days of beginning treatment.
What is 30 days?
This is the minimum number of generations that should be included in your genogram.
What is three?
This is the maximum amount of time that should be spent with each family member during the individual interviews.
What is 5 minutes?
This is how much time both family and practitioners get for their fishbowl/reverse fishbowl.
What is 5 minutes?
The practitioner will schedule a time to reconnect with the client/family within this time frame following the SFA.
What is 24 hours?
The SFA should be scheduled in this sort of location.
What is Neutral (will also accept What is the office)?
These are the first things you include on the genogram for each family member.
What are demographics such as age, occupation, highest level of education completed, where they live?
This is the first question asked in individual interviews.
What is "What do you think is the main problem/issue in the family"?
This is who participates in each fishbowl (or reverse fishbowl).
What is only the family participates in the fishbowl and only the practitioners participate in the reverse fish bowl?
The practitioners should do this with the family as they are leaving.
What is thank them for their participation and vulnerability.
The SFA involves this many practitioners who should be doing this before the SFA.
What is 2, who should have met prior to review the plan, role delineation, and pertinent issues to address in reverse fish bowl?
After the family shares descriptors and societal/cultural influences for everyone on the genogram, the practitioner should then ask about these 4 key factors for everyone.
What are mental health, legal involvement, trauma history, and substance use.
This is the second question asked in the individual interviews.
What is "What would you change in the family if you could"?
These are the two important questions the practitioners ask the family when they have completed their fishbowl.
What is "How typical was this of the way you normally talk with each other" and "Do you like how you talked with each other"?
Following the fishbowls, families will now set these, which will be behaviorally specific, concrete and culturally inclusive; realistic, feasible, and sustainable and will allow for ownership & empowerment, clarity & direction, reframing problems & will be the foundation for ongoing work.
What are goals?
These are the first two things you should do with the family when beginning the SFA.
What is introductions and overview?
These are the final two things identified on the genogram, ending on a positive note.
What are strengths and protective factors?
This is the third question asked in individual interviews.
What is "What are you willing to do to make things better"?
This is why practitioners do a reverse fishbowl.
What is to show respect to the family by giving direct and honest feedback, demonstrating nothing is stated behind their back, and providing them the opportunity to listen without interrupting as practitioners did for them.
This component of the SFA provides a shared direction that anchors and aligns their goals, ensuring each objective reflects the family’s collective hopes and values. This is one overarching statement to define their desire during the FCT journey.
What is The Family Vision?
These are the four rules set for the family in the SFA.
What are (1) Everyone is expected to participate. (2) Everyone is asked to stay until the end of the session. (3) Do not respond to questions by saying “I don’t know”—give it your best guess. (4) This is not a “hurting time”—no punishment during or after the session.
It is important to do this with the genogram when finished.
What is take a picture to give to the family?
This is how it is determined which practitioner interviews which family member.
What is let each family member decide who they want to interview with?
Utilizing individual perspective, reframing, and prediction, these are the various topics addressed in the reverse fish bowl.
What are all Phase 1 assessments, generational patterns identified in genogram, cultural influences, and family functioning?
What is the specific rule that this was not a time for hurting.