SFT
Techniques
Structural Family Therapy
Benefits of SFT
SFT Theory
APN & Theory Comparison
100

This technique involves the therapist developing a sharing and empathetic relationship to "join" the family.

What is Joining

100

Relationships can create stress and mental health problems for members of that family.

What is dysfunctional family

100

 Exhibit mixed subsystems and improper power hierarchies, as in the example of an older child being brought into the parental subsystem to replace a physically or emotionally absent spouse.

What is Dysfunctional Families:

100

Structural Family Therapy (SFT) is a form that strives to identify subsets within a family construct to isolate dysfunctional subsets and remap them into more harmonious, healthy relationships

What is Psychotherapy

100

Based on the idea that nurses demon­strating they care about patients is as impor­tant to patient well-being as the clinical activ­i­ties provided.

What is Swanson’s Theory of Caring

200

The therapist will help the family identify, explore, and adopt clear boundaries and hierarchies within the family.

What is Boundary-making

200

Identified hidden hierarchies and relationships within the family that lead to this.

What is Dysfunction

200

Invisible set of functional demands that persistently organize the interaction of the family.

What is Establishes Healthy Boundaries

200

A contemporary psychiatrist who helped develop family therapy and pioneered the field of structural family therapy.

Who is Salvador Minuchin

200

This approach to family therapy offers a useful perspective to the nurse therapist working with families with various cultural backgrounds

What is Structural Approach

300

This involves acting out scenarios with the therapist's guidance to look at certain patterns of behavior, identify dysfunction, and practice enacting alternatives.

What is Role-play

300

The basic structure of the family, including the members of the family unit, their ages, genders, and relationships to one another

What is Map Diagrams

300

Minuchin’s goal is to promote a restructuring of the family system along more healthy lines.

Hierarchies Within The Family System

300

Salvador Minuchin was born in here in 1921

What is San Salvador, Argentina

300

Nurses who work with families might profit by using this approach.

What is Culturally Diverse

400

In cognitive reframing, the therapist helps family members think about situations in different ways or see things from a different perspective. This can help people see experiences more positively.

What is Reframing

400

Families impacted by trauma

Blended Families

Single Parent Families

Intergenerational Families

Divorcees and their children

Wha is Groups that Benefit from SFT

400

The level of authority and boundaries set forth during the development of the family structure.

What is Parental Competence And Satisfaction:

400

Minuchin published this in 1974 to illustrate the methods he developed at the center.

 What is Families and Family Therapy

400

Development of this is a process, and occupational health nurses must develop these skills.

What is Cultural Competency

500

Minuchin contends that this is what rests not in the individual, but within the family system.


What is Pathology

500

Structural family therapy relies on a technique known to uncover and understand patterns of behavior and family interactions.

What is family mapping

500

Main objective is to understand how members of a family structure can learn to solve problems with a greater understanding of interaction.

What is Relationship Dynamics

500

His methods for treating anorexia integrate elements of both behavioral therapy and structural family therapy as outlined in his book.

What is Psychosomatic Families Anorexia Nervosa in Context

500

Nurses who are trained to deliver care are prepared to alleviate these types of stress

What is Culturally Competent