Milan Systemic Therapy

Question 1

Analogical Message:

Answer 1

Early Milan:

symbolic (process).

Question 2

Circular Questioning:

Answer 2

Later Milan:

Outsider perspective of observation

Question 3

Counterparadox:

Answer 3

Early Milan:

unravel double-bind message by making dysfunction legitimate and necessary, DONT CHANGE!

Question 4

Digital Message:

Answer 4

Early Milan:

content (objective).

Question 5

Epistemological Error:

Answer 5

Early Milan:
problematic beliefs incongruent with reality
(not believing that one is responsible for own behaviors)

Question 6

Epistemology:

Answer 6

Early Milan:

How CT’s make sense of things and relationships

Question 7

Games:

Answer 7

Early Milan:

Unacknowledged and destructive interactions, often, unspoken and used to control another’s behavior.

Question 8

Hypothesizing:

Answer 8

Early Milan:

Continual process of conceptualizing the nature of the family’s behavior

Question 9

Metacommunication:

Answer 9

Early Milan:

reflecting on methods of communication

Question 10

Neutrality & Irreverence

Answer 10

Early Milan:

TH is open to multiple hypotheses

Question 11

Paradoxical Prescription:

Answer 11

Early Milan:

Rx symptom or asking for NO change.

Question 12

Positive Connotation:

Answer 12

Milan Systemic:

**+ reframe

Question 13

Punctuation (different than Structural):

Answer 13

Milan Systemic:

I did… because you…

Question 14

Rituals:

Answer 14

Milan Systemic:

Rx specific behaviors and specific times to provide CONSISTENCY/CLARITY

Question 15

Team Approach:

Answer 15

Milan Systemic:

team members will watch as 1 or 2 therapists work directly .

Question 16

The Dirty Game:

Answer 16

Later Milan:

When parents struggle for control, they triangulate a symptomatic child who then works to defeat the parents.

Question 17

Invariant Perspective:

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

Time:

Answer 18

Early Milan:

a family’s historic perception of a problem influences their current perspective. (mom is cold)

Question 19

The goal of Milan Systemic:

Answer 19

accommodate and adjust to new info

Question 20

Differences of Late Milan

Answer 20

No Paradox
Intro New epistemology
less directive
more process
Circular ?ing