Strategic Family Therapy Flashcards
Amplifying a deviation
The therapist accepts and enlarges an offering by the client and uses it as an intervention.
Causing change by communication in metaphors
A technique used by Milton Erickson while working with resistant clients; the therapist avoids directly talking about the problem or issue and uses metaphors or analogies instead.
Directives
Instructions given to the clients that are designed “to change the ways in which people relate to each other and to the therapist”
Emphasizing the positive
Therapist’s view that each person has a natural desire to grow.
Encouraging relapse
Technique in which the therapist predicts or encourages the client to relapse.
Encouraging resistance
Technique in which the therapist promotes the expressed by the client.
Encouraging the response by frustrating it
Technique in which the therapist encourages and provokes client to respond and then delays his or her ability to do so.
First-order change
Encouraging the response by frustrating it
Homeostasis
A state of equilibrium that is balanced and stable.
Indirect directives
Tasks that are not obvious to the client; are given to move the family members into specific behavior or interaction pattern.
Ordeal intervention
A prescription of behavior that causes more distress than the problem itself.
Paradoxical directives
A technique in which the therapist instructs the client to continue to perform the symptomatic behavior all the time or during the specified times.
Pragmatics
The effects or consequences of communication.
Prescribing the symptom
Paradoxical directive technique in which the therapist asks clients to perform the problematic behavior during restricted periods.
Providing a worse alternative
By giving choices to the client, even those that may be suboptimal, the therapist promotes the client’s autonomy.
Reframing
A technique used to change the meaning of a presenting problem.
Restraining
An intervention in which the therapist encourages client not to change because of the complexity of his or her presenting issues
Second-order change
Long-term change that results in the creation of a new homeostasis in the system.
Seeding ideas
Technique used in which the therapist suggests ideas in the information-gathering stage, with the intention of building on them later in therapy.
Semantics
The degree of agreement between what is said and what is received.
Straightforward directives
Techniques used by the therapist to set rules, boundaries, and structure in the interaction of family members. They may include advice, coaching, ordeals, and penance.
Syntax
The pattern as well as manner or style in which information is communicated.
Unbalancing
An intervention in which a repetitive pattern is halted because of the introduction of an opposite behavior.
*Feedback loops
Patterns of communication that link together in chains of stimulus and response.
