Key Theorists
This theorist was a key figure in developing Strategic Family Therapy and focused on hierarchical family structures.
Who is Jay Haley
This Strategic Family Therapy technique, developed by Jay Haley, requires a client to perform an unpleasant but harmless task whenever their symptom occurs, making the symptom more trouble than it's worth.
What is the prescribed ordeal?
What does MRI stand for?
Mental Research Institute
Changing a client's perception of their situation is a key strategy in Strategic Family Therapy (SFT) through what?
Reframing
Jay Haley emphasized the importance of this family structure, where parents hold clear authority over children.
What is a hierarchical structure?
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
This concept describes the tendency of families to resist change and maintain stability, even if it leads to dysfunction.
What is family homeostasis?
This Italian psychiatrist, initially focused on eating disorders, helped develop the Milan systemic model alongside Boscolo, Cecchin, and Prata.
Selvini Palazzoli
Reframing
Strategic family therapy grew from where?
Communication Theory
Rules of the system Change
Second-Order Change
According to Strategic Family Therapy, problems persist because families unknowingly create this kind of cycle, where their attempted solutions actually reinforce the issue.
What is a positive feedback loop?
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?
What are the 3 Strategic Family Therapy models?
Mental Research Institute (MRI), Haley and Madanes, and Milan
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
_aren’t given only to bring about change; they are also used to establish a type of relationship:
Some are straightforward
Some are indirect (usually used when straightforward ones aren’t followed)
What are use of directives
This model assumes that families make common-sense, but misguided, attempts to solve their problems.
MRI
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?
This Strategic Family Therapy technique involves telling the family to slow down or not change too quickly, which paradoxically motivates them to push for change.
What is restraining?