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tuffie · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

In brief strategic family therapy, a model that draws on structural and strategic therapies to address drug abuse problems with African American and Hispanic populations, all of the following are principals of intervention EXCEPT:

a. joining to connect with the family system.
b. enactments to assess family functioning.
c. reframing to promote caring and concern in the family.
d. paradox to get family members to do something different.

Question 2

Which of the following statements about using structural family therapy with diverse populations is TRUE?

a. The structural family therapy model was not developed to attend to the dynamics and needs of diverse families, especially those families with children having difficulties.
b. Structural family therapy employs an active and engaged approach with which the therapist often takes an expert stance in relation to the family, an approach that often fits with the values of traditional cultures.
c. Minuchin and his colleagues developed structural family therapy to work with wealthy, rural families.
d. Structural family therapy employs a passive approach in which the therapist often takes a deferential stance in relation to the family.