SW1021 Family Studies and Interventions

Please respond to the discussion post below. Must be original work and sources must be cited in APA format.

A) Structural family clinical social workers strongly believe that families organize themselves into enduring organizational patterns, which they refer to as family structure. Strategic Family Therapists , on the other hand, seem to reject this idea of enduring structure, and place more emphasis on disrupting sequences of interaction in which the family problem is embedded and maintained. Discuss the implications of this theoretical difference in shaping our attitude toward families and the impact on our intervention strategies.

Required Readings and Resources

• Gilbar, O., Gnall, K. E., Cole, H. E., & Taft, C. T. (2020). Post-traumatic stress disorder, intimate partner violence, and trauma-informed intervention. Violence and Mental Disorders, 3(3):
• Reiter, M. D. (2014). Case conceptualization in family therapy. Pearson Publishers. ISBN: 978-0-13-288907-0 (please read chapter 7)