Dr. Catharine Toso Presents

Knowing the Difference

Three Types of Family Counseling

The central philosophy of family therapy is that your behavior is a direct impact of your family setting.

But there isn’t just one method of “family counseling”. In fact there are at least three:!

❖ Structural Family Therapy!

❖ Strategic Family Therapy!

❖ Intergenerational Family Therapy

Structural Therapy Starting from the bottom

Facts About Structural Family Therapy

❖ Pioneered be Salvador Minuchin!

❖ Evaluates a family’s behaviors within a therapy setting!

❖ Maintains that slight changes to each family member’s behavior is necessary for betterment!

❖ A reevaluation of family rules is also made.

Strategic Therapy Looking from the outside in

Facts About Strategic Family Therapy

❖ Unlike structural therapy, strategic therapists do evaluations outside of a therapy session.!

❖ Emphasizes reframing, or looking at a problem from a different angle.!

❖ Focusing on easy, short-term changes is the path to change.

Intergenerational Therapy

Knowing your roots.

Facts About Intergenerational Family Therapy

❖ Takes into account how family traditions have an impact on each member of the family.!

❖ Useful in seeing how today’s problems originate in the behavior of previous generations.!

❖ A common approach is to also discuss how other families may experience similar problems.