Structural Family Therapy Model Application Essay
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? Part 3: Look at how the family is shown in the video and use the five most interesting ideas from the chapter in your analysis and paper. What ideas about culture and diversity can you use to judge 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.
5-7 pages is needed to complete this assignment
