Geiger Counter Model Differences Flashcards
Why do people have problems, and how can they change
MRI Brief Therapy: Why do people have problems?
Because the attempted solution for the family has become the problem.
MRI Brief Therapy: How can they change?
When the family interrupts the ineffective solution, that becomes the problem.
Strategic Family Therapy: Why do people have problems?
People have problems when the way power is distributed is creating problems in the system.
Strategic Family Therapy: How can they change?
People change when the interactional cycles that support the problematic hierarchy are interrupted.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Why do people have problems?
People have problems when they are unable to see beyond their problems.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: How can they change?
People change when they are able to see beyond their problem and consider exceptions to the problem and the solutions that exist beyond it.
Who are the founders of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg
Who are the founders of Strategic Family Therapy?
Jay Haley, Cloe Madanes, influenced by Minuchin
Who are the founders of MRI Therapy?
John Weakland, Don Jackson, Paul Watzlawick and Richard Fisch
Narrative Therapy: Why do people have problems?
People have problems when they are living the “stories” written by their culture, society, tradition, family of origin, etc. The dominant discourse is not who they are.
Narrative Therapy: How can they change?
People change when they begin to author and live their own stories.
Who are the founders of Narrative Therapy?
Michael White, David Epston, Jill Freedman, and Gene Combs
Structural Family Therapy: Why do people have problems?
People have problems when the structure of their system, hierarchies, subsystems, rules, roles, boundaries, etc., maintains the problem within the structure.
Structural Family Therapy: How can they change?
People change when the structure of the system is unbalanced and disrupted, not allowing the problem to return to its original place when the system returns to a balanced, reorganized structure.
Who are the founders of Structural Family Therapy?
Salvador Minuchin and Charles Fishmann
Bowen Intergenerational Family Systems: Why do people have problems?
People have problems when they are still caught in the emotional field of their family-of-origin.
Bowen Intergenerational Family Systems: How do they change?
People change when they are able to “leave” their family-of-origin and stand as separate individuals, individuated.
Who founded Bowen Intergenerational Family Systems?
Murray Bowen
Experiential Family Therapy: Why do people have problems?
Family problems are rooted in suppression of feelings, rigidity, denial of impulses,
lack of awareness, emotional deadness, and overuse of defense mechanisms.
Experiential Family Therapy: How do they change?
Therapists facilitate an experience that allows family members greater flexibility and variety of responses, allowing them to discover more possibilities than were previously available to them.
Who founded Experiential Family Therapy?
Carl Whitaker and Virginia Satir
Milan Systemic Therapy: Why do people have problems?
The problem is maintained by the family’s attempt to fix it. Dysfunctional patterns that maintain the problem in the “family game”.
Milan Systemic Therapy: How do they change?
Therapist perturb the sequence to create a new homeostasis and provide ways to do something different to allow the family to reorganize. Reorganization occurs without the problem.
Who founded Milan Systemic Therapy?
Mara Selvini Palazzoli
