Structural family therapy

JORGE COLAPINTO Structural family therapy 1 DEFINITION Structural family therapy is a model of treatment based on systems theory that was developed primarily at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, under the leadership of Salvador Minuchin, over the last 15 years. The model s distinctive features are its emphasis on Structural change as the main goal of therapy , which acquires preeminence over the details of individual change, and the attention paid to the therapist as an active agent in the process of restructuring the family . HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Structural family therapy was the child of necessity, or so the student may conclude in tracing the origins of the movement back to the early l960s, to the time when Salvador Minuchin was doing therapy , training, and research at the Wiltwyck School for Boys in New York.

Structural family therapy page 4 family therapy. In an early advance of a new conceptual model derived from the principles of general systems theory (Minuchin, 1970), the clinical material chosen as illustration is a case of anorexia nervosa. Although Minuchin‟s involvement with this condition was practically ...

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