Strategic Family Therapy - MFT Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024
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Strategic Family Therapy - MFT Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024
Strategic Family Therapy - ANSWER-Emphasizes change techniques over theory. Influenced by Milton Erickson. Therapist is very directive, especially useful with change-resistant families.
Techniques: Take charge role, directives,...
Strategic Family Therapy - MFT Exam
Questions & Answers 2023/2024
Strategic Family Therapy - ANSWER-Emphasizes change techniques over theory. Influenced by Milton
Erickson. Therapist is very directive, especially useful with change-resistant families.
Techniques: Take charge role, directives, paradoxical directives, ordeals, out-positioning, reframing
Directives - ANSWER-Specific, directed bx tasks for family to engage in during session and at home.
Ordeal Therapy - ANSWER-Places client in situation where it creates more work to maintain problem
than to change it.
Aligning with Parental Generation - ANSWER-A technique directed at strengthening the parental
hierarchy and reinforcing that parents are in charge of the children. The therapist will break neutrality
and intentionally align with the parental subsystem
Unbalancing - ANSWER-A technique for altering the hierarchical relationship between members of a
system or subsystem by aligning with one member and thus upsetting family homeostasis.
Presenting problem as metaphor - ANSWER-Symptom redefined as metaphor for larger problem.
Example: Child wetting bed is metaphor for keeping focus on child rather than addicted parents.
Paradoxical intervention - ANSWER-Involved in instructing families not to change or to change in ways
that contradict desired change.
Reframing - ANSWER-Presenting alternative perspective on a family members view or another
problematic bx.
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