This technique involves asking a question and not allowing the client to answer, or by saying something untrue about the client, frustrating the client and forcing them to explain themselves.
What is encouraging a response by frustrating it?
100
This therapeutic intervention makes it harder for a client to maintain the problematic behaviour than to give it up.
What is providing a worse alternative?
100
This intervention requires changing the meaning of a presenting problem so that the family changes the way they view it.
What is reframing?
100
The most famous of strategic techniques, this intervention is used when the therapist feels family members are more likely to follow a directive when they are unaware they have been given one.
What is a paradox directive?
100
The dimension in which therapists think of symptoms as being by choice and under control of the individual
What is involuntary vs. voluntary behaviour?
200
Urging a client not to change because of the complexity of their presenting issues.
What is restraining?
200
Interpreting client behaviour as corporative and not resistant, this intervention places the client in a double bind.
What is encouraging resistance?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!
This psychiatrist, psychologist, and self-taught hypnotist is noted for influencing strategic therapy, brief therapy, and family systems therapy.
Who is Milton Erickson?
200
Used when clients feel uncomfortable or resistant to talking about their issues, this intervention uses analogies and metaphors without directly mentioning the problem.
What is causing change by communication in metaphors?
200
If a client presents an unfortunate and/or involuntary behavior that he or she cannot change even though they want to do so, the strategic therapist may consider this dimension.
What is helplessness vs. power?
300
A technique used to maintain therapist control, and prevent client disappointment in case of relapse.
What is encouraging relapse?
300
Based on Erickson's belief in the power and abilities of each person, this therapeutic tool allows therapist and client to concentrate on the positive experience.
What is emphasizing the positive?
300
Presenting a client with some information, and then allowing the client time to get used to it before re-presenting it for a second time.
What is seeding ideas?
300
In this intervention, a repetitive pattern is haltered through the introduction of a drastically different behaviour.
What is unbalancing?
300
This lens is used when a presenting symptom may be an allegory for the problems of another family member.
What is metaphorical vs. literal sequences?
400
An umbrella term which includes interventions such as restraining, metaphors, ridiculous tasks, and paradox directives.
What are indirect directives?
400
This core umbrella intervention is used when the therapist sets rules, boundaries, and structure within the family.
What are straightforward directives?
400
Imposing a hardship more severe than the problem.
What is ordeal intervention?
400
Using this intervention, therapists take an anomaly present in a family and magnify it to the point where the family is forced to reorganize a new set of patterns, as they are no longer able to maintain the old ones.
What is amplifying a deviation?
400
Although strategic therapists prefer to think of people as being benevolently motivated, considering this dimension allows for behaviour to be considered as hostile.
What is hostility vs. love?
500
Encouraging a client to "fake it 'til you make it" in order to trigger old, preferred interaction patterns, or by creating new interactions that are now available.
What are pretend techniques?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!
This individual worked at the MRI as the director of research before leaving to work with Minuchin and Montalva. He and his wife later established their own institute and developed the key characteristics of strategic therapy.
Who is Jay Haley?
500
This dimension focuses on the distribution of power within the family system