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.
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