Case Study: Structural Family Therapy

I chose to discuss about Structural Family Therapy and how I would go about the process of having a family in a therapy session. Structural Family Therapy was developed by Harry S. Aponte (Psychotherapy.net.). Structural Family Therapy is about dealing within the environment of the family. It was mainly developed from coming in contact with poor people and families such as Blacks and Puerto Ricans. It focus on people who come from devastated communities and families. Structural Family Therapy is all about being active by getting the family to engage together to figure out the problem. Also, Structural Family Therapy works with other cultures and other different levels of families, all families does not have to be poor to needing the structural
The long term goal I have come up for Pamela is that she will display a decrease in anger management at 75% of the time. The first short time goal that Pamela will work on is to improve behavior management skills daily. Her intervention for this goal is having the counselor assist Pamela by identifying positive strategies to help deal with improving behavior issues. Counselor will also educate Pamela on improving behavior management skills through modeling, role play and worksheets. Also, Pamela will be assisted by the counselor with positive responses to manage behavior management. The second short term goal that Pamela will work is to develop and learn age appropriate social skills with family and peers weekly. The intervention for this goal is that the counselor will make possible open communication session with Pamela and family to help assist in developing positive safe social skills with family and peers. Counselor will make possible to develop appropriate strategies used to demonstrate respect and honesty towards peers and family therapeutic activities and role play. The third short term goal that Pamela will work on is not to be verbally aggressive towards family and peers daily. The intervention that will take place for Pamela is that the counselor will educate Pamela with necessary skills to appropriately to interact with family and peers in a non-aggressive manner.
This goes from the assumption that family problems may be due to low and bad structural in family relations (psychologydictionary.org).
I will use the Structural Family Therapy because Pamela had a problem with her parents and she refused to discuss it with them. Pamela treated her mom different from her dad. Pamela wanted to continue to be spoil and her parents continue to treat her like a little