In this article, Roselyne Kattar (2011), goes into details on the eleven defining principles of strategic family therapy (STF). She states that STF focuses on present observable behavioral interaction and uses deliberate intervention to change the ongoing system. The goal is to work from an interactional point of view while reframing the family dynamics. SFT is brief with ten sessions that last about three months.
The eleven defining principles are listed below: 1. Reality is constructed: there is no truth. 2. The problem is not individual: it is interactional, in the system. 3. The attempted solution is often the problem. 4. The therapist enters the client’s world. 5. The therapist changes the meaning by reframing. 6. The therapist
The eleven defining principles are listed below: 1. Reality is constructed: there is no truth. 2. The problem is not individual: it is interactional, in the system. 3. The attempted solution is often the problem. 4. The therapist enters the client’s world. 5. The therapist changes the meaning by reframing. 6. The therapist