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1 .       Strategic approaches to family therapy were widely accepted in the mid 1950s when Bateson, Weakland, Jackson, Fry and Haley worked together at MRI. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       The strategic approaches focused on problem-solving and used strategies that could be designed to outwit family resistance and provoke families into changing. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       Paradoxical techniques came out of hypnotherapeutic principles to turn resistance to advantage. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       "People are always communicating" is an example of a family rule. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       All messages have a command and an obey function. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       Family homeostasis is a mechanism that brings families back to a previous equilibrium in the face of any disruption. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       Communications theorists look for underlying motives to determine therapeutic intervention strategies. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Reframing was a reference to the restructuring of the family thought patterns by strengthening the positions of the parents. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       Families were sometimes subjected to elaborate ordeals in order to experience change in the family system. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Many strategic family therapists interviewed families searching for evidence to confirm their hypotheses that their children's symptoms came to be necessary to protect and maintain the family balance. [Hint]

 
 






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