Structural Family Therapy
Family Therapy Research Paper
COUN 601
Structural Family Therapy
ABSTRACT
This work explores the model of family counseling and therapy known as “Structural Family Therapy”. In this study SFT is explored in its original form as well as in a form that is presently being used and has been effectively used specifically in SFT initiatives in families that are working with the issue of acculturation. The studies of Minuchin and Haley are focused upon and the work of Todd (2006) is also taken into consideration. This work explores how SFT might effectively be applied by a minister of the neighborhood organization PACT and how the Christian principles might be effectively and successfully applied in the SFT therapy.
STRUCTURAL FAMILY COUNSELING/THERAPY
INTRODUCTION TO SFT
SFT – THE FOCUS The focus of this work is the method termed: “Structural Family Therapy”.
Salvador Minuchin pioneered the approach of “Structural Family Therapy” (SFT) It is related throughout the content of the various works of Salvador Minuchin is that the focus within the framework of structural family therapy is applied directly upon the interactions that go on within the family and that this knowledge is used in gaining a comprehension of the precise structure of the family and the family being an organizational type structure.
The symptoms displayed within the family are the direct result or “by product of structural failing”. (Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy Family System Therapy , nd) 1 The changes that must occur within the organization of the family structure are of the nature that true reorganization of the structure must be accomplished through resolution of conflicts and correction in interaction within the family organizational structure. (Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy Family System Therapy,
COUN 601
Structural Family Therapy
ABSTRACT
This work explores the model of family counseling and therapy known as “Structural Family Therapy”. In this study SFT is explored in its original form as well as in a form that is presently being used and has been effectively used specifically in SFT initiatives in families that are working with the issue of acculturation. The studies of Minuchin and Haley are focused upon and the work of Todd (2006) is also taken into consideration. This work explores how SFT might effectively be applied by a minister of the neighborhood organization PACT and how the Christian principles might be effectively and successfully applied in the SFT therapy.
STRUCTURAL FAMILY COUNSELING/THERAPY
INTRODUCTION TO SFT
SFT – THE FOCUS The focus of this work is the method termed: “Structural Family Therapy”.
Salvador Minuchin pioneered the approach of “Structural Family Therapy” (SFT) It is related throughout the content of the various works of Salvador Minuchin is that the focus within the framework of structural family therapy is applied directly upon the interactions that go on within the family and that this knowledge is used in gaining a comprehension of the precise structure of the family and the family being an organizational type structure.
The symptoms displayed within the family are the direct result or “by product of structural failing”. (Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy Family System Therapy , nd) 1 The changes that must occur within the organization of the family structure are of the nature that true reorganization of the structure must be accomplished through resolution of conflicts and correction in interaction within the family organizational structure. (Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy Family System Therapy,
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