SLWK 441 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stress Management
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Focus on family structure: the invisible and often unspoken rules that organize how members of a family interact. Rules, roles, and communication within the family. Subsystems: family member interaction that at times exclude other members. Alliances: two family members or subsystems interact cooperatively. Boundaries: physical and emotional separateness for each member. Triangles: a type of alliance in which two family members turn their attention to a third member for relief or support when in conflict with one another. Flexibility: families need to adjust their structures to accommodate changes in the lives of their members or environment. Other concepts: culture, family goals, family life cycle state, family myths, external systems influences. Relabeling or normalizing: help family develop a new perspective about themselves that is more constructive. Manipulating space: use positioning to highlight structural characteristics (sculpting). Discuss mutual decision making: to modify rules and roles within the family- correct cognitive distortions or myths.
