What is Strategic Family Therapy?
Refined and mastered by Jay Haley, Strategic Family Therapy (STF) is a form therapy that seeks to address specific problems in a shorter period of time unlike other forms intensive therapeutic treatments. However, it is considered as one of the major treatment models of both family and brief psychotherapy. The major difference in this style of therapy compared to others is that the therapist takes the role of responsibility.
The Mental Research Institute quotes Jay Haley as calling the therapy “Strategic” because “it is a therapy where the therapist intimates what happens during the therapy, designs a specific approach for each person’s presenting problem, and where the therapist takes responsibility for
Refined and mastered by Jay Haley, Strategic Family Therapy (STF) is a form therapy that seeks to address specific problems in a shorter period of time unlike other forms intensive therapeutic treatments. However, it is considered as one of the major treatment models of both family and brief psychotherapy. The major difference in this style of therapy compared to others is that the therapist takes the role of responsibility.
The Mental Research Institute quotes Jay Haley as calling the therapy “Strategic” because “it is a therapy where the therapist intimates what happens during the therapy, designs a specific approach for each person’s presenting problem, and where the therapist takes responsibility for