Structural Family Therapy

Terms 1

100

Techniques in which therapist prompts family to reenact a conflict or interactio

What are enactments?

200

Unclear distinction between members, creating sense of mutuality and connection at expense of individual autonomy 

What diffuse boundaries?

300

The outcome of diffuse or weak boundaries

What is relational enmeshment?

400

The outcome of rigid boundaries

What is disengagement?

500

Subsystem that forms between a parent and child against other caregiver

What is a cross-generational coalition?

Terms 2

100

Active and Observational

What is the role of the therapist?

200

The three basic forms of parental hierarchy

What is effective, insufficient, and excessive?

300

Couples, parents, siblings, and each individual.

What are subsystems?

400

An intervention that is used to break through rigid and interactional patterns, tone of voice, pacing, and word choice

What is intensity?

500

Two basic styles of family mapping

What is Colapinto’s family mapping and Gerlach’s family mapping? 

History

100

First book to describe structural therapy

What is Families of the Slums?

200

Name of family-oriented treatment program set up in the early 1960s

What is Wiltwyck School for Boys?

300

Former of Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, founder of Family Therapy Training Center, and considered progenitor of structural therapy

Who is Salvador Minuchin?

400

Person who developed a separate but related model called strategic family therapy, which influenced structural approaches

Who is Jay Haley?

500

Director of Philadelphia and Family Therapy Training Center that developed empirically supported treatment called ecosystemic structural family therapy (ESFT)

Who is Marion Lindblad-Goldberg?

Interventions

100

Piercing together each member's description of the problem and reframing it to reveal broader systemic dynamic

What is systemic reframing?

200

Form of enactment that targets overinvolvement or under involvement to help families soften rigid boundaries or strengthen diffuse boundaries

What is boundary making?

300

Realigning boundaries between subsystems and used for more extreme difficulties in hierarchy or when a person is being made a scapegoat

What is unbalancing?

400

Used to strengthen behaviors that support families in moving toward their goals

What are compliments?

500

Related to intensity, used with families who chronically avoid a conflict or problem

What is crisis induction?

Random

100

Visual representation of family structure, including hierarchy, boundaries, coalitions, and subsystems

What is family mapping?

200

How family members behaviors and roles complement each other to maintain family dynamics

What are complementary patterns?

300

Type of therapy that emphasizes broader social systems and incorporates new elements, including attachment, trauma, and emotional regulation

What is ecosystemic structural therapy?

400

Type of therapists that map family structure — boundaries, hierarchies, and subsystems to resolve individual and relational problems 

What are structural therapists?

500

A child is playing with the toy and not paying attention during a session. Rather than asking the child to stop, the therapist asks the parents to have the child stop. The therapist will continue guiding the family in practicing this interaction, reinforcing the new skills. 

What is shaping competence?