Theorist
This psychiatrist survived polio and inspired strategic family therpay.
Who is Milton Erickson?
According to SFT, who or what is seen as the “client”?
The family system
This technique involves changing the meaning of a behavior to see it in a new light.
What is reframing?
What is the timeline for SFT ?
What is short term ?
What is it called when a therapist assigns the family to do the problem behavior on purpose?
What is prescribing the symptom?
This strategic family therapist highlight in the text is still living.
Who is Cloe Madanes?
In SFT, symptoms are not random.They serve a ______ within the family system.
What is a function?
What intervention requires a family to go through an unpleasant task to overcome the symptom is called?
What is an ordeal?
SFT focuses on the ______ problem presented in therapy.
What is the presenting problem?
True or False: Change in one part of the family affects the entire system.
True
This prominent theorist cofounded the Family Therapy Institute.
Who is Jay Haley?
Strategic Family Therapy focuses on solving problems in the ______
What is the Present ?
What type of intervention uses humor or contradiction to make clients rethink their behavior?
What is a paradox?
Progress in SFT is measured by changes in what
What is observable behavior?
True or False : Strategic Family Therapy discourages giving families homework between sessions.
False
Major theorist for the Milan model
Who is Mara Selvini Palazzoli?
Instead of searching for “why” a problem exists, SFT focuses on changing ?
The patterns that keep the problem going.
This technique involves the parents telling the children they have a secret
What is the invariant prescription?
Successful outcomes in SFT occur when the family’s interactional patterns ...
What is change and become more functional?
True or False: Strategic Family Therapy focuses on exploring childhood trauma to create insight.
False
Which co-founder explored the balance between love and violence in family relationships?
Cloe Madanes
The ____ is to strategic therapy what the interpretation is to psychoanalysis
What is directive?
This technique is initiated before even the first session with the family
What is hypothesizing?
True or False: SFT is more focused on insight and emotional awareness than practical change.
False
True or False: Strategic therapists rely mostly on client-led discussions and very little structure.
False