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strategic family therapy assumptions |
Therapist is a strategist: emphasizes role of communication in maladaptive behavior, focuses on how communication is used to increase one's control in a relationship |
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strategic family therapy goals |
Alleviate current symptoms through altering family's transaction and organization |
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strategic family therapy techniques |
1. Initial session is highly structured and involves four stages: social, problem, interaction, goal-setting 2. Therapist assumes take charge role, issues directives like paradoxical interventions or ordeals |
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Paradoxical intervention |
A directive that uses the client's resistance in a constructive way |
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Ordeals |
Unpleasant tasks that a client must perform whenever a symptom occurs |
