TU Madeline Watford Strategic Family Therapy Case Study

Remember as a Strategic Therapist your approach will be to…

Introduce the treatment

Evaluate each member’s perspective of the problem

1. Determine the misguided solutions
2. Define Goals for Change/Treatment
3. Intervention (strategies: Paradox, Paradoxical Directive, Prescribing an Ordeal)
4. Terminate
5. The ultimate goals of Strategic Therapists are to
6. Do not focus on history in terms of understanding family dynamics

Reverse the misguided solutions

Come up with a solution that moves them toward change/new solutions that work.

1. https://youtu.be/tDVa-qiKCLM
2. Please watch this brief video of a mockk/role play strategic family therapy session and answer the following questions: 
3. What is the presenting problem/s according to strategic therapy? (5 points)

What were the misguided solutions? (5 points) 

Who is perpetuating the misguided solutions or problems? (2 points)

What was the intervention that created the shift or new solution? (3 points)