Describe the most widely used techniques of family therapy.

What will be an ideal response?

In family therapy, four of the most widely used techniques are

1.Validation: The therapist expresses an understanding and acceptance of each family 
member's feelings and beliefs and thus validates the person. The therapist finds something positive to say to each family member.

2.Reframing: The therapist helps families reframe problems as family problems, not an 
individual's problems.

3.Structural change: The family therapist tries to restructure the coalitions in a family. In 
a mother-son coalition, the therapist might suggest that the father take a stronger disciplinarian role to relieve the mother of some burden. Restructuring might be as simple as suggesting that the parents explore satisfying ways of being together, such as going out once a week for a quiet dinner.

4.Detriangulation: In some families, one member is the scapegoat for two other 
members who are in conflict but pretend not to be. For example, parents of a girl with anorexia nervosa might insist that their marriage is fine but find themselves in subtle conflict over how to handle the child. The therapist tries to disentangle, or detriangulate, this situation by shifting attention away from the child to the conflict between the parents.

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