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MRI Key Names ( 7)

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  1. Don Jackson
  2. Paul Watzlawick
  3. John Weakland
  4. Richard Fisch
  5. Wendel Ray
  6. Barbara Anger Diaz & Karen Schlanger
  7. Giorgio Nardone
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Milan Strategic Key Names (4)

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  1. Mara Selvini Palazzoli
  2. Gianfranco Cecchin
  3. Luigi Boscolo
  4. Giuliana Prata
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Strategic Key Names (2 main)

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  1. Jay Haley

2. Cloe Madanes

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General Strategic “Stance”

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Neutrality and Irreverence

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4 Pathological Dimensions of Family Interaction (Madanes)

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  1. To Dominate and to Control
  2. The Desire to Be Loved
  3. To Love and to Protect
  4. To Repent and to Forgive
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3 points to generally know of Strategic Family Therapy

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  1. Rooted in Communication Theory
  2. Defined by 3 different approaches - Milan, MRI, and Haley/Haley-Madenes Approach
  3. Directive therapist - geared toward action oriented problem solving
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Milton Erickson

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Father of Strategic Thought

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Watzlawick’s Axioms of Communication

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Communication is complementary (based on differences in power) or symmetrical (based on equal power)

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5 parts of Milan session

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  1. Presession
  2. Session
  3. Intersession
  4. Intervention
  5. Post session discussion
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Who conducted therapy in the Milan modality?

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male-female co-therapist dyad with team observations

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3 Basic assumptions of Strategic Therapies

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  1. We cannot not communicate
  2. Families Strive to maintain equilibrium - dysfunction = families trapped to maintain homeostasis
  3. Three explanations of problem development - cybernetics, structure and function
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MRI’s explanation of problem development

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Runaway positive feedback loops (cybernetics only) - context is pathological, not the symptoms

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Milans explantation of problem development

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Emphasis on Functionality: problems come to serve a function for the system

Also considered cybernetics and structure

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What is this intervention and who uses it?

Identify the positive feedback loop

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ALL - understand the circular causality

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What is this intervention and who primarily uses it?

Determine rules that govern behavior

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ALL

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What is this intervention and who primarily uses it?

identify inadequate parental hierarchies

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What is this intervention and who primarily uses it?

Identify attempted solutions

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MRI

From this inquiry emerges a formulation of the problem-solution loop and the specific behavior that will be the focus of intervention. Typically, the strategic objective will be a 180-degree reversal of what the clients have been doing.

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What is this intervention and who primarily uses it?

Reframe

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MRI

This allows the rules of the loop to change as one member reinterprets another’s behavior
One of the first interventions used by strategic therapists

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What is this intervention and who uses it?

Paradoxical Interventions/Injunctions

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MRI

Asking the family to do something that seems in opposition to the goals of treatment:

  1. Therapeutic double bind
  2. Prescribing the symptom
  3. Restraining Techniques
  4. Positioning
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What is this intervention and who primarily uses it?

Prescribing Directives and Ordeals

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Haley

Make the problem harder so that the price of keeping the symptom outweighed that of giving it up

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What are Directives (2)?

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Haley

  1. Suggestions to do something differently
  2. Suggestions to continue to behave the same
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What are the goals of Directives (3)?

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Haley

  1. Get the family members to do things differently in order to have different experiences
  2. to involve therapist in treatment and intensify the relationship to the therapist
  3. gather additional information about how the family responds to a task
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What is an Ordeal?

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Haley

Directives that are aimed at making the symptom harder to keep up than maintain

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Other Haley-Madanes Interventions (6)

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  1. Hierarchy fixing interventions
  2. Strategic Humanism
  3. Rituals
  4. Dramatizations
  5. Pretending
  6. Make-believe Play
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Strategic Humanism

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Haley-Madanes

Increasing family members’ ability to soothe and love rather than gain control

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Rituals

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Haley-Madanes

Prescription of actions that are designed to alter family’s roles

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Dramatizations

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Haley-Madanes

Parent directed to request his/her child to intentionally perform problem behavior

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Pretending

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Haley-Madanes

Parents ask child to pretend to have the symptom and parents pretend to help child

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Make-Believe Play

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Haley-Madanes

Asks parents to make believe they need child’s help and children make believe helping them

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