CONCLUSION
Structural family therapy, for a variety of reasons, provides an appropriate treatment model for the culturally diverse dysfunctional family. This approach is both structural and possesses clear goals for therapy.Withitsuseful concepts, such as hierarchy, and itsadvocacy for a parental executive system, boundaries, and subsystems, this model is appealing to many nurses. It has demonstrated compatibility with many ethnic and cultural family values. Furthermore, because the family and not the individual is viewed as the most important unit, this model provides the opportunity for the entire family to participate in changing dysfunctional individual and family patterns into a more productive family system.