El Pensamiento de Tercer Orden en la Terapia de Breve Estratégica para Parejas que vivieron una infidelidad

Third-order thinking is a promoter of reflections on social inequalities as guiding axes of the therapists' working hypotheses. Various authors have referred to therapy with a strategic approach as a brief, effective and efficient method for working with couples, which through third-order thinking, circularity, attempted solutions and incongruous hierarchies give a 180 turn degrees, since the therapist is an agent of social change. Particularly for its ability to analyze interactional patterns in the behavior of couples from the understanding of how culture and power operate, which are reflected in the symptoms as forms of daily resistance. Brief strategic therapy is a method capable of solving problem behaviors in couples in a short time. Speaking specifically of infidelity, strategic therapy provides solving elements of this problem. In this writing, a conceptual analysis of the strategic model for working with heterosexual couples was used, which led us to reflect on the methodology and ethics of using it in other types of couples. Keywords: Third order thinking, Brief strategic therapy, Couples