PARADOXICAL INTERVENTIONS - EXPLANATIONS AND CATEGORIZATIONS

Paradoxical interventions are of major importance for the systemic fam ily therapy. Because paradoxical interventions are widely used and mor e than 40 symptoms are treated by them explanations and categorization s of the different paradoxical interventions seem to be useful. The do uble bind hypothesis, but more the selection of specific paradoxical i nterventions dependent on certain client characteristics like reactanc e and perceived freedom of target behavior could lead to differential therapeutic effects and improved efficacy of paradoxical interventions . The explanation by decontextualization could facilitate the integrat ion of paradoxical interventions into the mainstream of psychotherapy. To find out whether single paradoxical interventions can be integrate d in broader theoretical frameworks or not, further discussions are ne cessary.