What is your assessment of this family’s structure, including an assessment of the boundaries between individuals and subsystems?
For your initial post, complete all of the following:
Citing the Minuchin et al. and Nichols readings, please identify two different Structural interventions used in the video of a family session with Aponte.
What is your assessment of this family’s structure, including an assessment of the boundaries between individuals and subsystems?
Did you see Aponte follow the outline of a first family session as described in the Weber et al. Download Weber et al. article? If so, which of the steps did he follow?
What did he do that you could see yourself doing in a first session with a family?
Video
https://www-psychotherapy-net.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/stream/widener/video?vid=228 (Links to an external site.)
Reference
Minuchin, P., Colapinto, J., & Minuchin, S. (2007). Working with families of the poor (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Chapter 3. Working in the system: Family-supportive procedures
Nichols, M. P., & Davis, S. D. (2017). Family therapy: Concepts and methods (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Chapter 6. Structural family therapy
