Structural Model
Salvador Minuchin’s Structural Model focuses on the family’s underlying organizational framework and its adaptability towards changing conditions throughout the family cycle that help regulate functional or dysfunctional patterns. His belief was that families experience life cycles searching for a balance between stability and change. Minuchin felt that there must be change within the family structure before any symptoms could be alleviated within the individual. By attempting to do so, the therapist must provide a leadership role in order to modify the structure in which the symptom is rooted. It is the therapist’s goal to change the family by actively engaging them as a whole, and to help mentor them as they encounter the ramifications
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Their goal is to push the family to look passed the symptoms of the identified patient in order to see the behavior within the family structural context. Therapeutic goals usually follow an order of joining and accommodating, assessing family interactions, monitoring family dysfunction sets, and restructuring transactional patterns. The therapist connects with the family by joining, and tries to understand why a member of the family is being excluded, while also respectfully accommodating to their family structural style. By doing so, the family is able to build a report with the therapist. They are able to form an understanding and trust towards the therapist which allows the family to receive help in a more personal way. It also can make the family feel very comfortable which will allow them to be aware of concerns amongst other members. Assessing family interactions overlap with joining the family. They attempt to assess a family by directing their attention to the family’s current organizational structure. The therapist is concerned with how the family adapts to developmental changes, unexpected situations, and how well family members will join together to help resolve tensions and conflict. By doing so, the therapist is able to get a better understanding of the situation at hand and how to go about helping alleviate the
Their goal is to push the family to look passed the symptoms of the identified patient in order to see the behavior within the family structural context. Therapeutic goals usually follow an order of joining and accommodating, assessing family interactions, monitoring family dysfunction sets, and restructuring transactional patterns. The therapist connects with the family by joining, and tries to understand why a member of the family is being excluded, while also respectfully accommodating to their family structural style. By doing so, the family is able to build a report with the therapist. They are able to form an understanding and trust towards the therapist which allows the family to receive help in a more personal way. It also can make the family feel very comfortable which will allow them to be aware of concerns amongst other members. Assessing family interactions overlap with joining the family. They attempt to assess a family by directing their attention to the family’s current organizational structure. The therapist is concerned with how the family adapts to developmental changes, unexpected situations, and how well family members will join together to help resolve tensions and conflict. By doing so, the therapist is able to get a better understanding of the situation at hand and how to go about helping alleviate the