Strateigic Family Therapy

Question 1

Stages of Strategic Th.

Answer 1

1 Social Stage- Join

2. Problem Stage - each perspective (dad 1st)
3. Interact State - observe patterns
4. Goal - therapist derived

Question 2

Aligning with Parental Generation:

Answer 2

Strategic:

TH breaks neutrality and intentionally align with the parental subsystem to restore power

Question 3

Incongruous Hierarchies:

Answer 3

Strategic:

when children create symptoms to change parents.

Question 4

Dysfunction of Strategic Th

Answer 4

Change resistant
Family life cycle
Fault organization

Question 5

Presenting Symptom as Metaphor:

Answer 5

Strategic:
symptom redefined as a metaphor of a larger problem.
For example, a child wetting his bed was a metaphor for keeping focus on him so his father can maintain his addiction to marijuana.

Question 6

Ordeal Therapy:

Answer 6

Strategic:

Symptom RX with added element….makes symptom difficult to continue

Question 7

Goal of Strategic Th

Answer 7

Decrease symptoms to alter behaviore
Restructure family
Establish clear rules

Question 8

Unbalancing:

Answer 8

Strategic:
TH intentionally sides with one family member to disrupt homeostasis and encourage change at the behavioral and structural level.

Question 9

Punctuation in Strategic Th

Answer 9

Emphasize with body language

Question 10

Pretend to Have Symptom:

Answer 10

Strategic:
A form of paradoxical intervention where Madanes would instruct a child to have a symptom and instruct the parents to help the child through it.

Question 11

Directives:

Answer 11

Strategic:

practiced in session and at home

Question 12

Strategic humanism

Answer 12

Madanes
love and happiness are appropriate
problems from love and violence