SWRK 2001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Strategic Family Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, Salvador Minuchin
2 Feb 2018
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Swrk 2001 week 7 working with families. Working with families: what is a family? (discussion, dependent on how the service user defines their family, the people who provide the service user support. Family constellations: nuclear family, two parents and their children, kinship relations, family members outside the parent-child relationship, family of origin, the family one was raised in as a child, current family context, the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s (cid:272)u(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)t fa(cid:373)ily. Opportunities for family casework: family court assessments, hospital discharge planning with families, social casework with children and adolescents, social casework with geriatric populations, child welfare, family therapy. In multidisciplinary teams, social work may be considered the expert on family dynamics. Methods of family casework: family therapy, family group meeting, family support. Family therapy: a therapeutic approach in which the family is the client, fa(cid:373)ily the(cid:396)apy seeks to (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge the fa(cid:373)ily syste(cid:373) as a (cid:449)hole, (cid:374)ot just the (cid:862)ide(cid:374)tified patie(cid:374)t(cid:863, like individual therapy, family therapists work from different modalities:
