Strategic Family Therapy

Strategic therapy isn’t a particular approach or theory, but a name for the types of therapy where the therapist takes responsibility for directly influencing people

• True

• False

Strategic Family Therapy derived from Palo Alto research group projects on family communication and included:

• Don Jackson, Jay Haley, John Weakland, Paul Watzlawick, Salvador Minuchin

• Gregory Bateson, Don Jackson, Jay Haley, John Weakland, Paul Watzlawick

• Gregory Bateson, Don Jackson, Jay Haley

• Gregory Bateson, Virginia Satir, Jay Haley, John Weakland, Paul Watzlawick

This is an example of:

"What you call nagging is your partners way of wishing to have things completed so you can spend more time together."

• Reframing

• Paradoxical injunction

• Redefining

Strategic therapy is often long in nature and requires a diagnosis of a family member.

• True

• False

"Continue fighting with you parents every morning before school" - is an example of:

• Restraining

• Predicting a relapse

• Prescribing

• Offering Prescriptions

This person takes an authoritative stance is therapy and sees his task as taking responsibility for change and resolving the problem the family came to see him for.

• Erickson

• Weakland

• Watzlawick

• Haley

• Selvini-Palazzoli

Describe the affect if circular questioning on family members?

• Keeps the family running in verbal circles

• Allows family members to perspective take of other family members

• Creates an accusatory environment

• Expose recursive family patterns

Structured Family Sessions (Milan Method) was a contributor to the reflective Family Groups you participate in each week.

• True

• False