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One of the primary premises underlying structural family therapy is that every fam-ily has a family structure, an “invisible set of functional demands that organizes the ways in which family members interact” ( Minuchin, 1974 , p. 51 ). This structure is revealed only when the family is in action.
Unhealthy or dysfunctional family roles emerge when families chronically struggle with alcoholism, mental health disorders, abuse, rigid or dogmatic values/rules. Roles may shift or change as family members leave or move away either emotionally or physically.
Using symbols and lines, genograms reveal patterns between family members that can be otherwise hard to spot. This systems-oriented approach is a powerful way to visualize and understand the impact of family dynamics.
You can have two Heroes if the family has a large gap between children. It can also happen when the first two children are a boy hero and a girl hero. The healthier the family, the less these roles are written in cement. The more dysfunctional, the more difficult it is to get out of these roles.
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Structural therapy poses that problematic behav-iors are embedded in a family’s relational patterns. Visually representing those patterns on a diagram serves the dual purpose of identifying how prob-lems are maintained by the family’s dynamics and guiding the therapeutic intervention.
This worksheet will help you identify how to set healthy boundaries when you have previously had a difficult time doing so with family members. What to Do. How do you know if your family had (and perhaps still has) unhealthy boundaries? Some of these situations might have occurred when you were a child. Check off any that apply.
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Cohesiveness: Enmeshed vs. Disengaged. Cohesiveness is a measure of how close the members of a family unit are; it is a measure of the emotional bonds towards or between each other. It looks at the boundaries between individual members of the family and the boundaries around the family.
