Structural Family Therapy

Structural Family Therapy is another name for Strategic Family Therapy?

• True

• False

Who was the leading figure for Structural Family Therapy?

• Milton Erickson

• Murray Bowen

• Salvador Minuchin

• Virginia Satir

_________________ structure refers to the way a family is organized into subsystems whose interactions are regulated by interpersonal boundaries

• Infa

• Systems

• Family

• Clear

All are KEY CONCEPTS except:

• Alliances

• Coalitions

• Engaged Boundaries

• Subsystems

What subgroups are based on gender, generation, and developmental tasks?

• Structural Mapping

• Alliances

• Coalitions

• Enactments

The goal of therapy is structural change; problem solving is not a by-product

• True

• False

• I don't like by-products

What makes SFT unique is the use of ____________ to reveal structural patterns, and later change them.

• Hypnosis

• ECT

• Enactments

• Assessments

In SFT, the Therapist:

(select all that apply)

• Intervenes to transform this structure

• Joins the family in a position of leadership

• Passes the joint around the circle

• Maps the family's underlying structure

When two people join to form a couple, the structural requirements for the new union are accommodation and:

• Hierarchies

• Cross-Generational Coalitions

• Joining

• Boundary Making

What subsystems offer closeness, but at the expense of independence?

• Parental

• Child

• Enmeshed

• Isomorphic