Theories in Marriage and Family Therapy
How does structural therapy address the problems in a family? -
By charting the relationship between family members and between subsets of family.
What does the therapy do? -
Tries to disrupt dysfunctional relationships within the family?
What does structural therapy focus on? -
family organization and boundaries and the ways in which these structures govern interactional
patterns.
Structural therapist attempt to -
unbalance the family.
Structural therapist also -
reframe the problem
Solution Focused believe that -
the attempted solution would often perpetuate the problem, rather than solving it
Solution focused also believed who is the expert? -
he client is the expert
Who believed if it is not broken, do not fix it -
Solution Focused
Examples of solution focused questions: -
How did you do that?, How did you decide to do that?, How did you manage to do that?
What does Solution Focused focus on? -
Finding solutions rather than understanding the problem.
Social Constructivist Family Therapy -
Based on the concept that reality is an intersubjective pheonmenon that is constructed in
conversation.
MRI group focused on -
problems
Solution Focused Family Therapy encourages -
clients to increase behaviors that work well and notice situations in which the problem does not
occur
Constructivist Family Therapy is based -
on postmodern philosoph
How does structural therapy address the problems in a family? -
By charting the relationship between family members and between subsets of family.
What does the therapy do? -
Tries to disrupt dysfunctional relationships within the family?
What does structural therapy focus on? -
family organization and boundaries and the ways in which these structures govern interactional
patterns.
Structural therapist attempt to -
unbalance the family.
Structural therapist also -
reframe the problem
Solution Focused believe that -
the attempted solution would often perpetuate the problem, rather than solving it
Solution focused also believed who is the expert? -
he client is the expert
Who believed if it is not broken, do not fix it -
Solution Focused
Examples of solution focused questions: -
How did you do that?, How did you decide to do that?, How did you manage to do that?
What does Solution Focused focus on? -
Finding solutions rather than understanding the problem.
Social Constructivist Family Therapy -
Based on the concept that reality is an intersubjective pheonmenon that is constructed in
conversation.
MRI group focused on -
problems
Solution Focused Family Therapy encourages -
clients to increase behaviors that work well and notice situations in which the problem does not
occur
Constructivist Family Therapy is based -
on postmodern philosoph
