Milan Systemic Therapy Flashcards
Analogical Message:
Early Milan:
symbolic (process).
Circular Questioning:
Later Milan:
Outsider perspective of observation
Counterparadox:
Early Milan:
unravel double-bind message by making dysfunction legitimate and necessary, DONT CHANGE!
Digital Message:
Early Milan:
content (objective).
Epistemological Error:
Early Milan:
problematic beliefs incongruent with reality
(not believing that one is responsible for own behaviors)
Epistemology:
Early Milan:
How CT’s make sense of things and relationships
Games:
Early Milan:
Unacknowledged and destructive interactions, often, unspoken and used to control another’s behavior.
Hypothesizing:
Early Milan:
Continual process of conceptualizing the nature of the family’s behavior
Metacommunication:
Early Milan:
reflecting on methods of communication
Neutrality & Irreverence
Early Milan:
TH is open to multiple hypotheses
Paradoxical Prescription:
Early Milan:
Rx symptom or asking for NO change.
Positive Connotation:
Milan Systemic:
**+ reframe
Punctuation (different than Structural):
Milan Systemic:
I did… because you…
Rituals:
Milan Systemic:
Rx specific behaviors and specific times to provide CONSISTENCY/CLARITY
Team Approach:
Milan Systemic:
team members will watch as 1 or 2 therapists work directly .
The Dirty Game:
Later Milan:
When parents struggle for control, they triangulate a symptomatic child who then works to defeat the parents.
Invariant Perspective:
Later Milan Systemic:
mother and father tell their family that they have a “secret,” and to then take a trip, away from the family. Intervention from restructure.
Time:
Early Milan:
a family’s historic perception of a problem influences their current perspective. (mom is cold)
The goal of Milan Systemic:
accommodate and adjust to new info
Differences of Late Milan
No Paradox Intro New epistemology less directive more process Circular ?ing
