Family Therapy Models

Question 1

Key figures for MRI Brief Therapy

Answer 1

Don Jackson, Jay Haley, Virginia Satir, John Weakland, Paul Watzlawick, Arthur Bodin, and Janet Beavin

Question 2

Types of change in MRI

Answer 2

First-order change: change in roles or specific behavior
Second-order change: change in the rules for relating within the system

Question 3

Goals of MRI

Answer 3

Behavior change that leads to symptom-free interaction patterns

Reverse misguided attempted solutions that have been maintaining problems

Question 4

Six Stages of Therapy in MRI

Answer 4

1) Introduction to the treatment setup
2) Define the problem
3) Identify attempted solutions and behaviors maintaining the problem
4) Develop a plan - treatment goals, and explore previous attempted solutions
5) Select and make behavioral interventions
6) Termination

Question 5

Interventions in MRI

Answer 5

1) Reframing
2) Less of the Same Behavior Prescription
3) Therapeutic Double Bind
4) Dangers of Improvement
5) Restraining
6) Symptom Prescriptions
7) Positioning
8) One-down stance of the therapist

Question 6

Therapeutic Stance in MRI

Answer 6

1) Active
2) Maneuverability
2) Attends to process more than content
3) Team approach - one-way mirrors
4) Therapist assumes responsibility for success or failure of treatment

Question 7

Therapeutic Stance in Milan Systemic Therapy

Answer 7

1) Neutrality or multipartiality
2) Curiosity
3) Irreverence for the problem
4) Not experts - hypothesis is abandoned if not helpful

Question 8

Therapy Goals for Milan Systemic Therapy

Answer 8

1) Make new meaning that change the “games” in the family
2) Symptom reduction by means of new systemic interaction patterns
3) Integration of new information
4) Maintain stability and cohesion as a system

Question 9

Stages of Therapy in Milan

Answer 9

1) Pre-session
2) Session
3) Intersession
4) Intervention
5) Post-session