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Strategic Family Therapy correct answers Emphasizes change techniques over theory. Influenced by Milton Erickson. Therapist is very directive, especially useful with change-resistant families. Techniques: Take charge role, directives, paradoxical directives, ordeals, out-positioning, reframing Directives correct answers Specific, directed bx tasks for family to engage in during session and at home. Ordeal Therapy correct answers Places client in situation where it creates more work to maintain problem than to change it. Aligning with Parental Generation correct answers A technique directed at strengthening the parental hierarchy and reinforcing that parents are in charge of the children. The therapist will break neutrality and intentionally align with the parental subsystem Unbalancing correct answers A technique for altering the hierarchical relationship between members of a system or subsystem by aligning with one member and thus upsetting family homeostasis. Presenting problem as metaphor correct answers Symptom redefined as metaphor for larger problem. Example: Child wetting bed is metaphor for keeping focus on child rather than addicted parents. Paradoxical intervention correct answers Involved in instructing families not to change or to change in ways that contradict desired change. Reframing correct answers Presenting alternative perspective on a family members view or another problematic bx. Metaphoric task correct answers Engaging family in convo or activity that is easier than discussing problem directly. Discussing through metaphor indirectly contributes to resolving actual problem. Pretend to Have Symptom correct answers Instruct child to have symptom and instruct parents to help child through it. Incongruous Hierarchy correct answers From Madanes, a dysfunctional structure in which children use symptoms to try to change their parents. Classical correct answers Strategic Family Therapy is categorized under what school of Family Therapy? Systemic; Family Structure correct answers Strategic Family Therapy merges Bateson's _____________ concepts with Minuchin's emphasis on the _____________ ____________.