Strategic
If a family member states their relationship with their mother is “difficult,” and the therapist responds with, “No, it is hopeless,” what treatment technique is this an example of?
Positioning
Parents refer to their child as “incorrigible” for their disruptive behavior. The therapist challenges the parents to use “naughty” instead and assists the parents in finding ways to modify their attitudes towards the “naughty” person.
Reframing
What is Punctuation
The way a person describes a situation, due to a selective perspective or emotional involvement in an event
What is Joining
The process of ‘coupling’ that occurs between the therapist and the family, leading to the development of the therapeutic system
Used in both Structural and Strategic, what is, to interpret positively the actions associated with resistance as ways the family copes or protects itself?
Reframing
A therapist having family members make-believe a troublesome behavior, such as engaging in a fight. What treatment technique does this example align with?
Pretend
A therapist sits daughter who is accused of not living up to the family’s traditions. The therapist also takes up of the daughter against the family and give reasons why it is important for the daughter to create new ways of behaving. What type of technique is being used?
Unbalancing
What is the process of Enactment?
Inviting the client-system members to treatment and having them demonstrate, to the therapist, the problematic behavioral sequences with each other.
Following the content (facts) of the family, restating the facts and providing feedback is known as what?
Tracking
Used in both Structural and Strategic, describe Paradox.
A form of treatment in which therapists give families permission to do what they were going to do anyway.
Having a couple agree that before a fight they will rearrange the living room furniture to resemble a courtroom and use this metaphor to conduct the argument. What treatment technique does this example align with?
Ordeals
A father dominates to the point where the children feel intimidated, so the therapist asks the family to enact a “father-dominated scenario.” While the family enacts this, the therapist instructs the rest of the family to behave in certain ways, such as uniformly refusing to do what the father says, to see how the interaction changes in hierarchy. What type of technique is being used?
Restructuring
By using strong affect, repeated intervention, or prolonged pressure, you are changing maladaptive transactions within the family system. This structural method is known as what?
Intensity
Using an affective word to reflect an expressed or unexpressed feeling of that family member is known as
Confirmation of a family member
Name at least two (4 total) Roles of a Therapist in Strategic Family Therapy.
1) Roles differ according to subschools - most stress being active and flexible; 2) 1st task: focus on resolving presenting problems - usually involves a power struggle; 3) Symptom focused and behaviorally oriented - virtually ignore family history and personal diagnoses; 4) Tailors approach for each family - may also use structural interventions
What is an example of a therapist utilizing a paradox treatment technique?
Paradox gives client families and their members permission to do something they are already doing and is intended to lower or eliminate resistance. Some examples of paradox include, restraining, prescribing, or redefining.
What is an example of a therapist utilizing an adding cognitive constructions, advice and information, technique?
A family member says, “I’ll be you’ve never seen a family as messed up as we are.” The therapist responds, “Your family is unique in a few ways, but many of your concerns and behaviors are common among families I see.”
This is a type of mapping that allows the therapist to see what needs to be modified/changed in order for the family to improve. It describes the systemic interrelationship of all family members.
Diagnosing
Daily Double!!!
Provide an example of how you would use mimesis technique.
Using the same metaphors/descriptive words as the family when restating/reflecting/summarizing. "Our family is like a tornado. We're chaotic, messy, and can hurt people's feelings." "I would like to help your family be less like a tornado and have more calm."
A teenage daughter, Maggie, is upset that her parents will not let her stay overnight with her friend on nights when they both have swim lessons early the next morning. The parents claim they feel they must stick to the rule of no sleepovers on weeknights that they made when Maggie was younger. Their therapist helps the Family redefine rules to meet the schedule demand of their now-teenage daughter. This is an example of what?
Boundary making
What is an example of a therapist utilizing a directive treatment technique?
A directive is an instruction from a family therapist for a family to behave differently. Some examples include nonverbal messages, direct and indirect suggestions, and assigned behaviors.
What is an example of a therapist utilizing an adding cognitive constructions, pragmatic fictions, technique?
A therapist tells a child that they are acting younger than their years, in order to help a child gain a greater grasp in understanding.
Describe and/or provide an example of Shaping Competence.
Reinforcing parents who make their children behave, even if the parents succeed only momentarily in accomplishing this feat. Reinforcing family members for doing things right or making their own appropriate decisions.
Provide an example of Accommodation.
Therapist would remove his or her coat if the family came to the session in shirtsleeves. Other examples can include: music, external stimuli (fidget items for neurodivergent clients), or coloring/drawing supplies.
Name at least two (6 total) Roles of a Therapist in Structural Family Therapy.
1) Both an observer and theater director or critic; 2) Watches the “family dance”; 3) 1st phase- leadership position; 4) 2nd phase- mentally map out family structure; 5) Last phase- help transform the structure by joining and leaving; 6) Uses a number of techniques such as challenging, praise, judgements