Experiential Family Therapy (EFT) Practice Test

Family Sculpting is the Satir technique that uses the body to visualize how family members relate, based on one member’s perspective. A person guides others to stand or sit in positions that symbolize closeness, distance, power, support, and boundaries as they perceive them. This externalizes internal dynamics, making hidden patterns—who dominates, who feels left out, how boundaries are drawn—visible in space. The process often begins with the guiding member describing what each position represents, then the therapist and family discuss what feels true and how different arrangements might shift the dynamics. In practice, repositioning can be used to explore new ways of relating and to practice changes in a safe, concrete way. I statements focus on personal feelings and experiences in communication, not on creating a spatial representation of relationships; Choreography maps patterns of interaction or movement over time rather than a physical sculpture of relational structure; Humor aims to reduce tension rather than to externally depict relationship dynamics.