What is the best description of the strategic approach to hierarchy and power?
a. The strategic therapist relies on the family to identify the person with the most power, then the therapist aligns with that person in order to utilize the power and ensure directives are carried out.
b. The strategic therapist carefully watches to assess which parent tends to get their way in arguments and attempts to engage the less involved parent.
c. The strategic therapist tends to take the side of the children in order to equalize power in the relationship.
d. The strategic therapist is not concerned with hierarchy and power in the family because the therapist asserts power and changes direction by the use of directives.
Q. 2All of the following are ways Madanes identified for strategic therapist to think about a problem EXCEPT:
a. involuntary vs. voluntary
b. helplessness vs. power
c. metaphorical vs. literal
d. medical vs. psychological
Q. 3Social courtesy describes the initial stage of strategic therapy and is a time in which the therapist engages the clients in casual conversation in order to make clients comfortable and reduce their sense of shame.
a. True
b. False
Q. 4In order to increase a clients motivation to find hope, the strategic therapist may express having little hope about the situation. This is an example of_______________.
a. strategic positioning
b. the one-down-stance
c. hierarchy and power
d. metaphor
Q. 5In strategic therapy, the therapists role and demeanor shift depending upon the needs of a particular client or family. This technique is called _______________.
a. maneuverability
b. taking sides
c. social courtesy
d. strategic positioning
Q. 6Haleys strategic therapy approach uses metaphors, including the metaphor of power.
a. True
b. False
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