Liberty University Coun 601 Exam 3 Attempt
Score: 100 Out of 100.
What is meant by Family Coalitions? - ✔️✔️- In the structural model of Minuchin,
Coalitions are alliances between specific family members against a third member
What is the emphasis of Structural therapists? - ✔️✔️- Structuralists pay special
attention to family transactional patterns because these offer clues to the family's
structure, the permeability of the family's boundaries, and the existence of alignments or
coalitions- all of which affect the family's ability to achieve a delicate balance between
stability and change. Structural therapeutic efforts are geared to the present and are
based on the principle of action preceding understanding.
what are characteristics of psychosomatic families? - ✔️✔️- Families of children who
manifest severe psychosomatic symptoms are characterized by certain transactional
problems that encourage somatization such as Enmenshment, poorly functioning
subsystems, too diffuse boundaries to allow for individual autonomy. A psychosomatic
family was found to be overprotective, inhibiting the child from developing a sense of
independence, competence, or interest in activities outside the safety of the family. The
psychologically vulnerable child feels responsibility for protecting the family. The
manifestation of symptoms typically occurs when stress overloads the family's already
dysfunctional coping mechanisms, Thus the symptoms are regard as having a
regulation effect on the family system.
What are the interventions according to structural therapists for psychosomatic families?
- ✔️✔️- Therapuetic efforts were not only directed at changing the structure of
, relationships within the family but also at helping the family develop clearer boundaries,
learn to negotiate for desired changes and deal more directly with hidden, underlying
conflicts.
Boundaries - ✔️✔️- An abstract delineation between parts of a system or between
systems, typically defined by implicit or explicit rules regarding who may participate and
in what manner.
Characteristics of enmeshed families - ✔️✔️- diffuse boundaries. A family organization
in which boundaries between members are over concerned and overinvolved in each
others' lives, limiting individual autonomy
Characteristics of disengaged families - ✔️✔️- rigid boundaries. a family organization
with overly rigid boundaries, in which members are isolated and feel unconnected to
each other, with each functioning separately and autonomously and without involvement
in the day-to-day transactions within the family.
monitoring family dysfunctional sets - ✔️✔️- The crux of structural therapy. Using
Boundary Making, the therapist tries to change the distance between the subsystems; in
Unbalancing, the goal is to change the hierarchical relationships of the members of the
subsystem. Through TRACKING, the therapists adopts symbols of the family's life
gathered from members (themes, values, significant family events) and deliberately
uses them in conversation with the family.
family mapping - ✔️✔️- an assessment technique used by structural therapist to
graphically describe a family's overall organizational structure and determine which
subsystem in involved in dysfunctional transactions
Score: 100 Out of 100.
What is meant by Family Coalitions? - ✔️✔️- In the structural model of Minuchin,
Coalitions are alliances between specific family members against a third member
What is the emphasis of Structural therapists? - ✔️✔️- Structuralists pay special
attention to family transactional patterns because these offer clues to the family's
structure, the permeability of the family's boundaries, and the existence of alignments or
coalitions- all of which affect the family's ability to achieve a delicate balance between
stability and change. Structural therapeutic efforts are geared to the present and are
based on the principle of action preceding understanding.
what are characteristics of psychosomatic families? - ✔️✔️- Families of children who
manifest severe psychosomatic symptoms are characterized by certain transactional
problems that encourage somatization such as Enmenshment, poorly functioning
subsystems, too diffuse boundaries to allow for individual autonomy. A psychosomatic
family was found to be overprotective, inhibiting the child from developing a sense of
independence, competence, or interest in activities outside the safety of the family. The
psychologically vulnerable child feels responsibility for protecting the family. The
manifestation of symptoms typically occurs when stress overloads the family's already
dysfunctional coping mechanisms, Thus the symptoms are regard as having a
regulation effect on the family system.
What are the interventions according to structural therapists for psychosomatic families?
- ✔️✔️- Therapuetic efforts were not only directed at changing the structure of
, relationships within the family but also at helping the family develop clearer boundaries,
learn to negotiate for desired changes and deal more directly with hidden, underlying
conflicts.
Boundaries - ✔️✔️- An abstract delineation between parts of a system or between
systems, typically defined by implicit or explicit rules regarding who may participate and
in what manner.
Characteristics of enmeshed families - ✔️✔️- diffuse boundaries. A family organization
in which boundaries between members are over concerned and overinvolved in each
others' lives, limiting individual autonomy
Characteristics of disengaged families - ✔️✔️- rigid boundaries. a family organization
with overly rigid boundaries, in which members are isolated and feel unconnected to
each other, with each functioning separately and autonomously and without involvement
in the day-to-day transactions within the family.
monitoring family dysfunctional sets - ✔️✔️- The crux of structural therapy. Using
Boundary Making, the therapist tries to change the distance between the subsystems; in
Unbalancing, the goal is to change the hierarchical relationships of the members of the
subsystem. Through TRACKING, the therapists adopts symbols of the family's life
gathered from members (themes, values, significant family events) and deliberately
uses them in conversation with the family.
family mapping - ✔️✔️- an assessment technique used by structural therapist to
graphically describe a family's overall organizational structure and determine which
subsystem in involved in dysfunctional transactions
