Structural family therapy (SFT) is a method of psychotherapy developed by Salvador Minuchin that addresses problems in how a family functions as a whole. Structural family therapists work to enter, or join, the family system in therapy in order to understand the invisible rules governing its functioning, map the relationships between family members or subsets of the family, and ultimately disrupt dysfunctional relationships so the family stabilizes into healthier patterns. Minuchin held that pathology rests not in the individual but within the family system itself.
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Central QuestionIf pathology rests not in the individual but within the family system, how can a therapist map and disrupt the invisible rules governing that system to stabilize it into healthier patterns? 1 Founded Year Connections
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The source page names family rules, the core Strategic concept quoted here, as a concept that emerged from Structural Family Therapy.
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Minuchin contends that pathology rests not in the individual, but within the family system.
Wikipedia, Salvador Minuchin, Selected works, Books
Families and Family Therapy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1974.
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family rules are defined as an invisible set of functional demands that persistently organizes the interaction of the family.
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