ABSTRACT
The therapist’s framework was structural family therapy, a body of theory and techniques that approaches the individual in his social context. Therapy based on this framework is directed toward changing the organization of the family. Structural family therapy, approaching man in his social context, was developed in the second half of the twentieth century. It is one of many responses to the concept of man as part of his environment that began to gain currency early in the century. Structural family therapy utilizes this framework of conceptualizing man in his circumstances. A therapist oriented to individual therapy tends to see the individual as the site of pathology and to gather only the data that can be obtained from or about the individual. Therapist and family join to form a new, therapeutic system, and that system then governs the behavior of its members. A context-related therapist interpreted the movement to a new apartment as an ecological crisis.
