Ordeals are unpleasant tasks that a client must perform when symptoms occur. In strategic family therapy, paradoxical interventions such as ordeals are used to help the family see a symptom in a different way. For example, in ordeals, a client might be asked to invite his mother-in-law for a dinner (unpleasant task) every time he yells at his family.

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Ordeals Are

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Ordeals are:

A) Unpleasant tasks that a client must perform when symptoms occur
B) Exaggerations of symptoms
C) Relabeling of symptoms
D) Orders to deliberately engage in the symptoms

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