Strategic Family Therapy - MFT Exam UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Strategic Family Therapy - MFT Exam
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
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.