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Instructions-FamilyTherapy.docxFamily Therapy Course
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Write a short description of a person in crisis for alcohol abuse. Include the person’s age, gender, ethnicity/race, marital status, and any other relevant unidentified descriptive information.
Describe the client’s presenting problem and the crisis event. Explain why this situation is considered a crisis.
Discuss how ethnicity, race, gender, age, class, sexual orientation, or other diversity characteristics may affect the client and the crisis intervention.
Provide an overview of the social problem that may be helpful to know in planning the assessment and intervention. For example, this is an alcohol abuse case, provide a summary of the scope, indicators, and consequences to the victim and the family.
Design a specific crisis intervention based on the content using the below method of theory for intervention. Include any other scholarly resources that you find particularly helpful.
Write a conclusion to your intervention plan. What do you anticipate the outcome to be?
Include at least two actions you take to avoid personal burnout in working with this issue.
Length: 5-6 pages use at least 4 articles to cite.
Structural Family Systems (Minuchin):
General Concepts:
- Symptoms are the result of dysfunctional role assignments
and overly rigid or overly diffuse boundaries
- The focus is change in the family structure, not the
presenting problem
- Dysfunctional families lack alternatives resulting from
inflexible family structure
- Action-oriented, not insight-oriented
- Healthy subsystems are free of interference from other
subsystems
- Attention paid to cultural considerations and family
metaphors
- Focuses on family life cycle adjustments
Role of the Therapist:
- Stage director; observer; educator
- Active in making interventions to uncover & modify
underlying structure of family
Timeframe: Here and now
Duration: Short term
Unit of Treatment: Whole Family
How Change Occurs:
- Through Restructuring and Realigning the Hierarchy
Termination Criteria:
- Presenting problem is resolved
- Family system restructured to allow problem-solving
- Family has skills to resolve future conflicts
Early Stage Goals:
- Form therapeutic subsystem (Joining)
- Assess boundaries, alliances, coalitions
- Symptom reduction
- Relabel the presenting problem and reframe the family’s
view of it
- Remove the IP label
- Set goals
Early Stage Interventions:
- Joining, accommodating, mimesis
- Confirmation and empathy
- Reframe Problem as family problem
- Enactments: e.g. draw picture of family – shows power
distribution
- Tracking
- Family Mapping: look for alliances and splits
Middle Stage Goals:
- Change underlying family structure and patterns that
maintain symptoms
- Strengthen boundaries between subsystems
- Restructure: boundaries, hierarchy, alignments
- Create a cohesive executive subsystem
- Educate about development issues
Middle Stage Interventions:
- Re-enactment
- Manipulate intensity – e.g. repetition of themes, blocking
or encouraging interactions, modulating voice
- Boundary making – e.g. changing the placement of people
in the room
- Paradoxical interventions – if clients aren’t compliant – do
more of what doesn’t
- Unbalance the system – e.g. support “one down” person
- Teach conflict resolution skills (communication skills,
parenting skills)
- Psychoeducation – regarding family patterns and
developmental issues
- Shaping competence – by highlighting strengths and
progress
Late Stage Goals:
- Consolidate Gains
Late Stage Interventions:
- Highlight therapeutic progress
- Mark structural alterations
- Emphasize strengths
- Discontinue sessions digressively
