Author Question: Strategic therapists use pretend techniques to help clients obtain their desired goal. Pretend ... (Read 83 times)

rosent76 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Strategic therapists use pretend techniques to help clients obtain their desired goal. Pretend techniques can best be described by which of the following statements?

A) A series of interventions that allow the system to pretend that problematic behaviors do not exist
B) Faking a behavior or achievement of the goal for a designated period of time
C) Allowing the negativity of the behavior to affect the individual
D) Engaging in communication about the problem, therefore not allowing the problem to permeate the relationship

Question 2

Logan, a strategic therapist, is working with a client who reports uncontrollable worrying all of the time. The client reports she cannot stop worrying and feels like her worrying is out of control. Logan asks her client to set an egg timer to worry for 10 minutes at a set time each day for the next week. What is Logan doing?

A) Symptom prescription
B) A straightforward directive
C) A metaphorical task
D) None of these is correct