Exam 13: Strategic Family Therapies

Strategic family therapy works well in combination with some other therapies, but particularly with experiential and Bowen family therapy.

The 'brief' part of strategic family therapy refers to the duration of treatment.

The pretend technique that Cloe Madanes formulated is based on the idea that individuals change through experiencing control of a previously involuntary action.

Strategic family therapists believe that families interact within a limited range of repetitive behavioral sequences known as the ________ principle.

In strategic family therapy, instructions from the therapist for the family to behave differently are called

The reason that strategic and structural family therapy overlap is due to _______ who worked in both strategic and structural family therapy environments.

Goals in strategic family therapy include all the following except:

Therapeutic neutrality means that the therapist does which of the following?

Directing parents to go out together for various periods of time without telling their children where they are going and when they will return is an example of what technique?

Strategic family therapy has been strongly influenced by the work of:

A method of interviewing in which questions are asked to highlight differences among family members is known as:

Strategic family therapy has been criticized for being too 'cookbookish' and 'mechanical.'

In strategic family therapy, the first task is to define a presenting problem in such a way that it can be solved.

An example of a paradoxical technique would be:

A strategic family therapy technique with a goal for the client to give up symptomatic behavior in order to avoid performing a constructive behavior is known as:

By giving positive connotations to behaviors, therapists simultaneously reduce resistance to treatment by the family and establish rapport.

Strategic family therapy has been found to be successful in treating families and their members who display such dysfunctional behaviors as ______

Use of a therapeutic team within Milan systemic family therapy is cost-efficient and ineffective.

The strategic family therapist works as an expert and is overtly active believing that it is essential to make changes in people and families within the first _____ sessions.