Abstract
Provocative Reversal is an interactive therapeutic technique utilizing mutual storytelling, role play, role reversal, and role rehearsal. In addition, the therapist frequently employs provocation, sometimes in a paradoxical fashion, to stimulate adaptive coping with difficult problem issues. The provocative reversal (PR) method is designed to invite insight and behavior change through specific therapeutic interaction with an individual client. Because of the often playful storytelling nature of certain sequences in the technique it is readily adaptable to a pre-adolescent population.