MFT2
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- Unbalancing
- supports one family member and interferes with homeostasis. Unlike many other therapies that strive to maintain neutrality, structural therapists often appear to take sides. Ex. Parents giving up on child’s behavior problems; the therapist might exclude child from session and throw the system off balance by asking the father when he divorced his wife and married his golf clubs—this is not inherently blaming but a means to jolt the stuck structure; goal is to get couple talking about unexpressed conflicts/pain that drove them apart and help them be both a couple and a more effective parental subsystem.
- Challenging assumptions
- —offers the family alternative views of reality by changing the way they relate to one another. Family’s perceived reality becomes its ‘truth’ or narrative hx (part accurate, part construction) which guides family interactions sometimes to their detriment.