PPBC, Milan Systemic Flashcards

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Milan Systemic

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Palazzoli, Prata, Boscolo, Cecchin

Seen by male-female dyad and observed by other therapy team members.

Sessions always a month apart.

WHO? Whoever is related to the problem. Usually fewer.

HOW LONG? Long-term, brief therapy. 10 sessions over months.

GOALS: Integrate new beliefs, info. Helps with functioning.

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EARLY Milan

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Influenced heavily by MRI Group, Strategic.
Used paradoxical interventions.
Therapist dyad - one male, one female - observed live.

5 delineated parts in sessions
sessions 1 month apart, 1 year

POSITIVE CONNOTATION

RITUAL

Benefits merely from considering the issue vs doing it.

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Epistemology

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Milan Systemic
PPBC

How families make sense of the world, incl. relationships

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Epistemological Error

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Milan Systemic
PPBC

Beliefs that don’t fit/are incongruent with reality.

I’m not responsible for my behavior.

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Games

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Milan Systemic
PPBC

Unspoken behaviors that are destructive in families. Used to control others.

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Analogical Message

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Milan Systemic
PPBC

Metaphor/symbolic message - the process

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Digital Message

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Milan Systemic
PPBC

Objective content of message.

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Metacommunication

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MRi & Milan

COMMAND communication - what isn’t being said, what is being communicated about the communication.

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Punctuation

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MILAN - diff than structural

The way I attribute my behavior to someone else’s behavior. I nag because you don’t help

STRUCTURAL - diff than milan
therapist intentionally emphasizes someone’s body language/statement so they become conscious/can reflect

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Time

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Milan Systemic
PPBC

The way I view a problem - it influences how I felt about it then and how I feel about it now. If right now I feel my mom is cold, I only recall cold memories.

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Milan Systemic: Assessment & Diagnosis

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Assessment is ongoing.
Hypotheses based on treatment team.
Initial: phone call - expectations, presenting problem.

Team then makes hypotheses during pre-session meeting. These are adjusted as treatment continues.

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Positive Connotation

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Milan
PPBC

EARLY MILAN INTERVENTION - Hallmark
circularity: positiver attribute assigned to each behavior, whether desirable or undesirable.

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Rituals

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Milan
PPBC

EARLY MILAN INTERVENTION

Prescribed behaviors to happen at specific times of day for specific periods of time to build consistency/clarity.

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Paradoxical Prescription

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Milan
PPBC

EARLY MILAN INTERVENTION

Prescribing the symptom or ask family to not change.

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Neutrality & Irreverence

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Milan
PPBC

EARLY MILAN

Therapist’s stance - open to multiple hypotheses about behavior.

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Counterparadox

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Milan
PPBC

EARLY MILAN

To unravel a family’s double-bind message - your dysfunction is needed, so don’t change.

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A Learning Process

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Milan
PPBC

EARLY MILAN

All interventions are just for learning. Testing hypotheses, trial and error.

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Hypothesizing

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Milan
PPBC

EARLY MILAN

Ongoing conceptualization of what’s happening in a family. - guides questions, interventions

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Team Approach

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Milan
PPBC

EARLY MILAN

Team consults and discusses progress. Meets pre-session to come up with plan and hypotheses. Use of one-way mirror.

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Milan Systemic Therapy Structure

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Every session: 5 parts

1) Pre-Session: w/o family, make hypotheses
2) Session: meet w/family, check hypotheses
3) Intersession: Meet w/team, form intervention
4) Intervention: Deliver intervention - positive connotation, ritual. Always given as against change - use of paradox!
5) Post-Session Discussion: team debriefs, prelim plans, hypoth for next session.

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LATER MILAN

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Palazzoli, Prata and Boscolo, Cecchin

PP: interrupting destructive family games - used invariant prescription

BC: No use of paradoxical intervention. Intro new info. Work toward new epistemology, new ways of B. Used hypothesizing, circularity, neutrality.

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The Dirty Game

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LATE MILAN
Palazzoli, Prata

Parents struggle for control, then triangulate symptomatic child - then child works to defeat parents.``

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The Invariant Prescription

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LATE MILAN INTERVENTION

PP

3rd session
Mom/Dad tell fam you have secret. Take trip away form family. Don’t tell family more than they have a secret.

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Circular Questioning

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LATE MILAN INTERVENTION
Boscolo, Cecchin

Therapist - ask one fam member to comment on interactions of 2 others. Creates circularity. Helps build hypotheses.