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family therapy chapter 6 strategic
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Psychology
Graduate
03/07/2013

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double bind
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a conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages on different levels of abstraction in an important relationship and cannot leave or comment
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family homeostasis
Definition
tendency of familes to resist change to maintain a steady state
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hierarchal structure
Definition
family functioning based on clear generational boundaries in which the parents maintain control and authority
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paradoxical intervention
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technique used in strategic therapy in whicn the therapist directs family members to continue their symptomatic behavior. If they conform they admit control and expose secondary gain, if they rebel they give up their symtom.
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prescribing the symptom
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a paradoxical technique that forces a patient either to give up a symptom or to admit that it is under voluntary control.
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restraining
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a strategic technique for overcoming resistance by suggesting that a family not change.
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circular questioning
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method of interviewing developed by Milan associates which questions are asked that highlight differences among family members
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