Questions to Guide your Thinking about Family Therapy

  1. How do family therapists think about individuals and families differently than individual therapists? Who's the "problem" from the family's point of view? from the therapist's?

  2. How do family therapists assess problems and strengths in a family?

  3. How does the therapist's assessment and view on families translate into different interventions in the course of family therapy?

  4. What styles of families do family therapists describe? How do they differ in terms of structure and boundaries? What sorts of issues would you expect to be most important for each type of family?

  5. What function do boundaries and structures serve for a family? What happens for the family when these aren't working well?

  6. What's a healthy family? Why?

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