SWRK 2001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Strategic Family Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, Salvador Minuchin
28 Jun 2018
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SWRK2001H: Foun da tion s of Social Work
Wedn e s d a y, Novemb er 1st, 2017
Lecture Week 7 – Working With Families
Family Constellations
-Nucle ar Family: two pare n t s and their children
-Kinship relation s: family me mb er s outsid e of the paren t- child relation ship s
-Family of origin: the family one was rais ed in as a child
-Current family conte xt: the person ' s curre nt family
Opportunities for Family Casework
-Family court asse s s m e n t s
-Hospital dischar g e plannin g with families
-Social case w ork with children and adolesc e n ts
-Social case w ork with geriatric populatio ns
-Child welfare
-Family thera p y
Why Work With Families?
-Fits the syste m s approa c h of social case wo rk
-Family can play a found a tion al role in an SU's well being
-Family may be a key caus e of the SU's "life proble m s"
-In multidisciplinary tea m s , social work may be consid er e d the exp er t on family dyn a mic s
-Families "take home " the work, help reinforce tre at m e n t gains
Methods of Family Casework
-Family thera p y
-Family group mee tin g
-Family supp ort
Family Therapy
-A thera p e u tic appr oa c h in which the family is the client
-Family thera p y seek s to chan g e the family syste m as a whole, not just the "identified patie n t"
-Like the individu al ther ap y, family thera pis ts work from differ en t mod alitie s:
oStructur al family ther a p y
o(brief) strat e gic family thera p y
osolution- focus e d family thera p y
onarrativ e family thera p y
Structural Family Therapy
-develop e d in the 196 0' s by Salvad or Minuchin
-the family is a psych oso cial syste m, with sub syst e m s orga nize d in hierarchie s
-each subs yst e m has particular roles – when they do not fulfil their roles or intrud e on other roles proble
-en m e s h m e n t , disen g ag e m e n t or he alth y boun d arie s
-thera pist s role is to:
ojoin with the family syste m
oass e s s the bound arie s, subsys t e m s and structu r e
ointerve n e to creat e healthier family structu r e (ena ct m e n t s , restru ct uring bound a rie s, unb alan cin
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
-develop e d in the 197 0s at the University of Miami
-originally design e d to work with Hispanic families with a drug- involved youth (often first and seco nd ge
immigr a n t s )
-family is a syst e m within larger social syste m
-emp h a sis on proce s s over conten t
-joining, diag no sis of family struct ur e, restru ct urin g
-interve n tion s include
oworking in the pres e n t (ena ct m e n t s )
orefr a mi ng
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Document Summary
Swrk2001h: foun d a tio n s of social work. Wedn e s d a y, nove m b e r 1st, 201 7. Lectur e week 7 working with families. Nucle a r family: two par e n t s and their childre n. Kinship relation s: family me m b e r s outsid e of the par e n t- child relation s hi p s. Curre n t family cont e x t : the per so n " s curr e n t family. Family of origin: the family one was rais e d in as a child. Family court ass e s s m e n t s. Hospit al disch a r g e plannin g with families. Social cas e w o rk with childre n and adole s c e n t s. Social cas e w o rk with geria tric popul a tio n s.
