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= Strategic Family Therapy = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Strategic family therapy is a short-term form of family therapy typically utilized with youths who struggle with behavioral issues such as drug addiction and delinquency.

History
Milton Erickson

Erickson's student Jay Haley, was influenced by his work and coined the term Strategic Family Therapy to describe

Cloé Madanes contributed the pretend technique to Strategic Family Therapy. The pretend technique is Madannes also worked to apply Strategic Family Therapy

A Brief psychotherapy, strategic family therapy emphasizes changing behavior

Branches
Mara Selvini Palazzoli

Luigi Boscolo

Gianfranco Cecchin

Guiliana Prata

Modern Contributers
Paul Watzlawick

John Weakland

Lynn Hoffman

Peggy Penn

Richard Rabkin

Family Rules

Family Homeostasis

Quid Pro Quo

Redundancy Principle

Punctuation

Symmetrical Relationships and Complementary Relationships

Circular Causality

Techniques
The pretend technique has family members choose to engage in a behavior they find problematic, for example, fighting. This promotes change by

Reframing

Directive

Paradox in strategic family therapy is. Methods of paradox include restraining, prescribing, and redefining.

Restraining

Prescribing

Redefining

Positioning uses hyperbole to replace family members wording with

Medical uses
Drug addiction

Delinquency

See also[edit]

 * Family therapy

References[edit]

 * 1) ^
 * 2) Madanes, C. (1981). Strategic family therapy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
 * 3) Madanes, C. (1984). Behind the oneway mirror: Advances in the practice of strategic therapy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
 * 4) Madanes, C. (1990). Sex, love, and violence. New York: Norton.
 * 5) Madanes, C. (1991). Strategic family therapy. In A. S. Gurman & D. P. Kniskern (Eds.), Handbook of family therapy (Vol. II, pp. 396– 416). New York: Brunner/ Mazel.

Categories:


 * Family therapy