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Evidence Based Practice Project: Families Struggling With Sexual Abuse And/ Or Incest, Beth Roerig, Hannah Odell
Evidence Based Practice Project: Families Struggling With Sexual Abuse And/ Or Incest, Beth Roerig, Hannah Odell
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Structural family therapy was examined for effectiveness when working with family populations that struggle with incest and / or sexual abuse. This evidence based project reviewed and studied research to effectively create curriculum. The primary goal of structural family therapy is to assist families in mapping the family structure through boundary making, hierarchies, and subsystems to help clients resolve individual mental health symptoms and relational problems, interventions include stabilization, psychoeducation, coping mechanisms, creating boundaries, expressing emotions, and restructuring roles. Enactments and symbolic representation was found to be beneficial when progressing to goals in a therapy setting.