One of the more popular theories in the field of [[Marriage & Family Therapy]]. Founded by Salvador Minuchin.
Founded by Salvador Minuchin
Key concepts:
- The **family** is the client
- SFT helps families by dealing with problems that affect **current** interactions of family members
- SFT therapists don't talk as much about family generations, etc
- The focus is on how families operate as a system and their structure with the system
The goal of structural family therapy...
- families are expected to solve their own problems
- we rearrange the family and have the family solve problems, we don't solve for them
- modify the present (done in session, rarely give any homework)
- in session enactments similar to EFT
- for the family to reorganize itself in a way around a symptom
- apply structural changes
- establish boundaries that are appropriately flexible
- support the parental subsystem and an effective hierarchical structure