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Making compliments and shaping competence are used by a structural therapist in order to ___________________ ___________________ ________________.
 
  a. make therapy more enjoyable to clients
  b. augment and reinforce the familys natural positive interaction patterns and strengths
  c. encourage the client about the progress that they are making in their own self discovery
  d. help the family function in therapy

Question 2

Intensity is an intervention best described by which of the following statements?
 
  a. Intensity is a technique in which the therapist turns up the heat by using tone of voice, pacing, and word choice to break through a barrier.
  b. Intensity is a technique in which the therapist and the client hypothesize a worst case scenario therefore allowing the client to manage their own anxiety more effectively.
  c. Intensity is a technique in which the clients reenact the problem but to a heightened degree therefore highlighting the family interactional patterns.
  d. Intensity is technique in which the therapist allows the family to discuss what they would do in a hypothetical situation therefore realigning the boundaries in the system.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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