Clinical Psychology: Milan Systemic Family Therapy

Question 1

Mara ____________ developed Milan Systemic Family Therapy; she was trained as a ____________ but altered her techniques when she found a family systems technique more effective for treating children with ________.

Answer 1

• Selvini-Palazzoli
• Child Psychoanalyst
• Anorexia

Question 2

Maladaptive behavior results when families’ circular patterns of _________ and _________ become so _________ that members are no longer able to act creatively or to make new choices about their lives.

Answer 2

• Action
• Reaction
• Fixed

Question 3

The goal of Milan Systemic Family Therapy is to help family members see their ___________ and exercise their prerogative of _________.

Answer 3

• Choices
• Choosing

Question 4

Milan Systemic Family Therapy is unique in its use of the therapeutic _________, in which one or two members of the ___________ will meet with the family, while the remaining member observes behind a one-way mirror.

Answer 4

Team.

Question 5

Milan Systemic Family Therapy Technique 1: Initial contact with the family is used as an opportunity to collect info. that the team uses to derive ___________, which are subsequently tested by the team and revised as necessary.

Answer 5

Hypotheses.

Question 6

Milan Systemic Family Therapy Technique 2: _________ - The therapist remains an ally of the entire family.

Answer 6

Neutrality.

Question 7

Milan Systemic Family Therapy Technique 3: ___________ strategies are used to provide family members with information that will help them derive solutions to their own problems.

Answer 7

Paradoxical.

Question 8

Milan Systemic Family Therapy Technique 4: ______________ are asked of each family member to help them recognize differences and similarities in their perceptions (e.g., “Who was more upset, Mom or Dad?”).

Answer 8

Circular questions.