Map Family Closeness and Distance Patterns

Resonance / Closeness-Distance Map is a practitioner-only BSFT formulation tool for family therapy practitioners. It helps practitioners clarify closeness, distance, overinvolvement, or disengagement among family members in relation to the presenting problem.

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Tool guide

Learn more about this tool

Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.

Relationship-Specific View

The tool captures differences across dyads or subsystems rather than reducing the family to a single global impression.

Unresolved Does Not Mean Balanced

Relationships without enough evidence can remain unresolved so missing information is not interpreted as a clinical judgment.

Limitations

The product does not create relationship satisfaction scores, attachment classifications, automated healthy/unhealthy judgments, or fixed rating scales not supplied by the specification.

Is this a relationship satisfaction survey?

No. The tool is a practitioner-entered closeness-distance profile tied to the presenting concern.

Can the practitioner map subsystems instead of dyads?

Yes. The supported granularity setting allows dyad or subsystem relationship entries.

Does the tool recommend boundary changes automatically?

No. Boundary or connection shift notes are entered by the practitioner.

What happens to sample relationship entries after saving?

They are not preserved as real client data; only the tool and selected configuration carry into the account.