When it is used
Use it when the session calls for more directive clarification of a behavior or interaction that needs to change.
Strategic Questions
Strategic Questions is a practitioner-led systemic questioning configuration for family practitioners. It helps practitioners ask practitioner-entered strategic questions, capture family responses, and organize an action-oriented understanding of the behavior or interaction direction that needs to shift.
Try a sample focus behavior and review the change-direction result.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What it captures
The tool captures presenting concern, problematic interaction focus, family responses, practical implications, and an entered change-direction statement.
Limits
The tool is not a behavior plan, compliance tracker, intervention protocol, or outcome-measure tool.
Does this assign next steps to the family?
No. Strategic Questions clarifies a change direction; next-step planning happens outside this tool.
Does the tool include fixed strategic question prompts?
No. The practitioner enters the strategic questions because the specification does not supply a fixed prompt set.
What if no change direction emerges?
The result remains incomplete rather than forcing a change direction.