Deck 13: Strategic Family Therapies

Question 1

The pretend technique that Cloe Madanes formulated is based on the idea that individuals change through experiencing control of a previously involuntary action.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Strategic family therapy has been strongly influenced by the work of:

A) Murray Bowen
B) Milton Erikson
C) David Espston
D) Virginia Satir

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Therapeutic neutrality means that the therapist does which of the following?

A) takes an active role in the therapy
B) joins with the family
C) encourages family members to generate solutions to their own problems
D) reframes negative communication
Questions

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The 'brief' part of strategic family therapy refers to the duration of treatment.

Question 5

A strategic family therapy technique with a goal for the client to give up symptomatic behavior in order to avoid performing a constructive behavior is known as:

A) restraining
B) prescribing
C) ordeal
D) pretending

Question 6

The strategic family therapist works as an expert and is overtly active believing that it is essential to make changes in people and families within the first _____ sessions.

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five

Question 7

An example of a paradoxical technique would be:

A) homework
B) prescribing the symptom
C) positive connotation
D) positioning

Question 8

Strategic family therapy works well in combination with some other therapies, but particularly with experiential and Bowen family therapy.

Question 9

Strategic family therapy has been found to be successful in treating families and their members who display such dysfunctional behaviors as ______

A) enmeshment
B) eating disorders
C) substance abuse
D) all of the above

Question 10

In strategic family therapy, the first task is to define a presenting problem in such a way that it can be solved.

Question 11

Strategic family therapists believe that families interact within a limited range of repetitive behavioral sequences known as the ________ principle.

A) neutrality
B) family dance
C) redundancy
D) redefining

Question 12

A method of interviewing in which questions are asked to highlight differences among family members is known as:

A) a therapeutic double bind
B) circular questioning
C) positive connotation
D) a family ritual

Question 13

Strategic family therapy has been criticized for being too 'cookbookish' and 'mechanical.'

Question 14

Use of a therapeutic team within Milan systemic family therapy is cost-efficient and ineffective.

Question 15

Goals in strategic family therapy include all the following except:

A) behavior change
B) symptom removal
C) breaking up vicious cycles of interaction
D) instilling insight

Question 16

By giving positive connotations to behaviors, therapists simultaneously reduce resistance to treatment by the family and establish rapport.

Question 17

Directing parents to go out together for various periods of time without telling their children where they are going and when they will return is an example of what technique?

A) paradox
B) homework
C) variant prescription
D) invariant prescription

Question 18

In strategic family therapy, instructions from the therapist for the family to behave differently are called

A) ordeals
B) hypothesizing
C) invariant prescriptions
D) directives

Question 19

The reason that strategic and structural family therapy overlap is due to _______ who worked in both strategic and structural family therapy environments.

A) Paul Watzlawick
B) Selvini Palazzoli
C) Cloe Madanes
D) Jay Haley