Strategic Therapy

Question 1

Paradoxical Directives

Strategic Therapy

Answer 1

Maneuvers that are in apparent contradiction to the goals of therapy, yet are actually designed to achieve them; paradoxical interventions help avoid confrontation with therapist’s instructions; undermines resistance by keeping clients in charge.

Question 2

Positioning

Strategic Therapy

Answer 2

Therapist takes a more exaggerated and extreme view of the problem and the family is obligated to rebel. That leads to them seeing the ways in which they have competency.

Question 3

Homework (Assignments or directives)

Strategic Therapy

Answer 3

take place outside of therapy are essential to the therapy having a successful outcome. The underlying goal of the homework is to try to change the way the family dynamics function around the presenting problem that was identified in session.

Question 4

Prescribing the Symptom

Strategic Therapy

Answer 4

A strategy in which the therapist encourages or instructs the client to engage in or practice the symptom.

Question 5

Restraining

Strategic Therapy

Answer 5

The therapist will discourage change or changing too quickly in an effort to elicit the desire to change from the client.

Question 6

Ordeals

Strategic Therapy

Answer 6

Particular type of symptom prescription in which clients are encouraged to carry out harmless but unpleasant tasks whenever symptoms occur; example: having to get up and clean the basement every time the client cannot sleep.