Family Therapy Indications Child conduct disorder Mood Schizophrenia Drug/Substance abuse Marital issues Childhood disorders Trauma Anxiety Explores Family structure rules power/charge display of emotions Subsystems → different teams in family, what are they? mother & father → subsystem sister & brother → subsystem mother & daughter → subsystem → caretakers of the family Boundaries are there subsystems on either end of the spectrum too nosy & into private matters → overly involved disengaged & don't care about anything Power & Hierarchy who does most talking? → who looks to people for approval? who decides who talks? who assigns tasks? who assigns qualities to people in the room? Alignment → when 2 people share reciprocal benefits & bond in a true way Coalition → alliances of family members against each other? Triangulation → when 1 member of a 2 member subsystem tries to distract by bringing a 3rd person General Structure STAGE I Intro of self Maintenance → validating & highlighting strengths within a family Tracking → ask qs STAGE II Family genogram to see family structure What brings them to therapy Review of family goals whole family not one individual person e.g. NOT dad stops yelling rather less yelling in the family Stage III Reframing → change issue from being within a person to being between people allow interpersonal relationships with multiple people rather than blaming 1 person Complementarity Reinforcement Boundary setting Stage IV Maintaining gains Stage V Ending / Termination