Theoretic adjusting

System theory, with four techniques: Strategic family therapy, Structural family therapy, Experentiell family therapy and Communication theoretic family therapy.

Strategic family therapy

A strategic family therapist takes a role as an expert and instructor. The family therapist is clearly conducting, just for the need of changes inside the family system. Primary the focus is not on insight, communication, experiences, feelings or "genuine meetings". The focus is on fast solutions as seen from without the family experience as their actual problem. The therapist often gives the family an assignment as they will carry through for the next session. The parents or the family shall be agreed about a common strategy.

Structural family therapy

A structural therapist meets a family and look at their interaction from a structural perspective. The therapist sees how the family interacts to conceptions like hierarchy, subsystem, coalitions, limits, the function of the symptom in the family system. From what the therapists see he interprets the things that need to change and therefore works with it. To create change the therapist works as seen from without with different restructuring techniques-action directly in the room.

Experentiell family therapy

An experentiell therapist works by putting problems in to its connection. To be able to do an interpreting of the symptom's function the therapist has to widen the family system to a perspective of three generations. During the whole therapy, the widen connection is the prerequisite to be able to interpret. The present time is only a part. The therapist tries to reconstruct the history of the family and by that create clearness and plainness for the family. The therapist is not a director in the same way as in the structural family therapy work. The therapist is more like a "guide" who uses his own personality. The most important is the meeting, the experience between the family members. Not problem solutions , just personal growth.

Communication theoretic family therapy

A communication theoretic therapist works a side the things that makes the communication in the family destructive and by that he wants to promote changes. The purpose is for the communication to be direct, clear and honest. The emphasis is lying on a mutual and respectful co-operation between the therapist and the families, where the communication and the feelings comes first. The therapist becomes something like a catalyst and a teacher who delivers feelings and teaches the skills of communication in the relationsship to the family.