Structural Family Therapy Model Application 4

The assignment for this week involves applying the assessment and treatment concepts from the Structural Family Therapy model to a family portrayed in a video. The focus is NOT on the video and providing a synopsis of it. It isON the application of the concepts of this model to the family dynamics portrayed in the movie.

Part one: select one of the following movies. You can find these movies on Netflix (or other subscription video streaming websites), Red Box (or video store), or at your local public library.

Antoine Fisher
Big Fish
Crazy/Beautiful
Dan in Real Life
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Father of the Bride (1 or 2)
Juno
Keeping the Faith
Love & Basketball
Mildred Pierce
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Ordinary People
On Golden Pond
Pursuit of Happyness
Real Women Have Curves
Seasons 1 OR 2 of Downton Abbey
Sleepless in Seattle
The Blind Side
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
While you were Sleeping

Part two: Read the material in the Chapter 5. Focus on understanding the basic concepts and how those apply to the work of a MFT.

Part three: Analyze the family dynamics portrayed in the video and apply the 5 most compelling, to you, concepts from the chapter in your analysis and write-up. What cultural/diversity concepts apply to the assessment of the family(ies) in this movie?

Remember toavoid the tendency to provide a synopsis of the video and focus on providing a Structural Family Therapy assessment and summary of the family dynamics portrayed in the video.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.