The burdens of giving care to a chronically ill or dependent family member can be overwhelming. While support groups and individual counseling assist the caregiver in coping with these burdens, recognition of the individual family structure is useful when developing successful clinical interventions. Minuchin's structural family model highlights an individual's need of group support for survival, socialization, and emotional stability. Using this framework within a family case study involving a three-generational family, interventions to decrease the family's caregiving burden are examined.
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