Zena Is a First-Year Therapist Using the Milan Approach

question 24

Multiple Choice

Zena is a first-year therapist using the Milan approach. She is working with a family in which the only child and the stay-at-home father have a very close bond or covert coalition. Zena instructs the parents to arrange to go on a date and not tell the child where they are going. This creates a secret between the parents to hopefully end the inappropriate coalition between the father and child. What type of intervention did Zena use?

• A) Circular questions
• B) Counterparadox
• C) Ritual
• D) Invariant prescription

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