Brief MRI Therapy (Strategic Therapy)

Question 1

• Jay Hayley
• Watzlawick,
• Bateson (cybernetics)
• Jackson

Question 2

• circular questioning to develop awareness
• 10 Sessions max
• reframing and paradoxical interventions
• principles of cybernetics (feedback loops)

Question 3

• 1st and 2nd order change
• solution is the problem
• circular causality - problem is repetitive pattern
• adopt more flexible roles

Question 4

• not problem focused - PROCESS focused
• more about process not about content
• metacommunication

Question 5

• at the system level - changes rules
• reframing behaviors
• interrupt family games, invariant prescriptions
• set number of session in beginning of treatment

Question 6

• work with individual motivated to have problem go away

Question 7

• attends to belief rather than behavior

Question 8

• ritual - ordering of behavior in the family either on certain days or at certain times

Question 9

Report – the content aspect of communication. Command is often nonverbal and makes a statement about the relationship between communicators. Problems arise when report and command are contradictory. … In complementary relationships, one person is superior while the other person is inferior or submissive.

Question 10

therapists not encouraged to go through own therapy

Question 11

individuals are reactors to information via social reaction (foundation of MRI )

Question 12

homeostasis: Families regulate themselves using symptoms as negative feedback. According to Jackson, this helped families keep their equilibrium.

Question 13

problem is the attempted solution

Question 14

Therapeutic double bind - no matter what you do it’s wrong

(undo double bind - attribute new meaning to same behavior)

Question 15

Dangers of improvement - ask clients to identify potential problems that might arise if the problem were resolved

Question 16

Restraining, Going slow -(paradoxical)

Question 16

Restraining, Going slow -(paradoxical)