Key Theorists
This theorist was a key figure in developing Strategic Family Therapy and focused on hierarchical family structures.
Who is Jay Haley
This concept refers to cycles of interaction where a family’s response to a problem either maintains stability or escalates the issue.
What are feedback loops?
Strategic family grew from where?
Communication Theory
Changing a client's perception of their situation is a key strategy in Strategic Family Therapy (SFT) through what?
Reframing
Strategic family counseling is intended to be simple and _________ and to focus on changing symptomatic behaviors and rigid rules.
Pragmatic
The founder of the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in 1959 helped develop the brief therapy model, emphasizing how attempted solutions can maintain problems.
Who is Don Jackson
This intervention, developed from hypnotic principles, involves instructing clients to continue or even exaggerate their problematic behavior to create awareness and change.
Paradoxical
This approach to therapy is based on the idea that problems are maintained by repetitive interaction patterns rather than deep-rooted psychological causes.
What is Strategic Family Therapy?
Changing a behavior with the system
First-Order Change
Haleys Strategic Family Therapy Techniques integrates _____________hypnotherapeutic techniques.
Ericksonian
This Italian psychiatrist, initially focused on eating disorders, helped develop the Milan systemic model alongside Boscolo, Cecchin, and Prata.
Selvini Palazzoli
Reframing
This model assumes that families make common-sense, but misguided, attempts to solve their problems.
MRI
Rules of the system Change
Second-Order Change
This theorist was known for his critical writing and innovative strategies in family therapy. He later co-founded the Family Therapy Institute with Cloé Madanes.
Jay Haley
This Milan systemic model technique involves asking family members structured questions to reveal relationships, perspectives, and patterns in their interactions.
What is circular questioning?
The cycles of interaction where a family member's behavior triggers a response, which then influences future behavior, creating a continuous loop of cause and effect.
Feedback loops
Who came from a background in communication and entered the field without a clinical credential and got a reputation for being annoying
Jay Haley
This anthropologist was a key influence in the development of Strategic Family Therapy and led the schizophrenia project that inspired many of its core ideas.
Gregory Bateson
A Strategic Family Therapist might use this technique by directing family members to complete specific tasks outside of therapy sessions to disrupt dysfunctional pattern
What is a directive?
What are the 3 Strategic Family Therapy models?
Mental Research Institute (MRI), Haley and Madanes, and Milan