HALEY Flashcards
Who is the person for strategic
HALEY
What is strategic family’s primary goal?
Alter family interactions that are maintaining symptoms
What are the core features of family functioning
Struggles for POWER and CONTROL
Strategic family therapists …
Assume an active role to change behaviour
What is the 1st session like?
Highly structured
Brief social stage (welcome fam/observe interactions)
Problem stage:
elicits each family members view of the problem
Intersectional stage: fam members discuss their diff views of the family’s problems. Therapist observed how family members interact when addressing the problem
Goal setting stage: therapist and family agree on a definition of the problems and set concrete goals that target the problem
What are straight forward directives
Instructions to engage in specific behaviours that will CHANGE how family members interact