Which therapy is typically brief and uses strategic interventions to change family interactions?

• A. Brief Strategic Therapy
• B. Structural Theory
• C. Transformational Systemic Therapy
• D. Family Systems Theory

Answer: (A)

This question targets the use of brief, strategic methods to change how family members interact. Brief Strategic Therapy is designed to be short in duration and uses targeted interventions—such as directives, reframing, and sometimes paradoxical tasks—to disrupt problematic interaction patterns and quickly steer the family toward new ways of relating. The emphasis is on changing the interactional dynamics in a concise time frame, rather than on long-term exploration or restructuring.

Other approaches focus more on altering structure, meaning-making, or general family dynamics. For example, structural therapy concentrates on reorganizing family boundaries and subsystems, which can be longer-term and structural in focus. Transformational systemic therapy and broader family systems approaches emphasize changing underlying narratives and relationships rather than specifically aiming for brief, directive-driven change.