MRI Interactional Family Therapy
A general term that describes a variety of paradoxical techniques used to change entrenched family patterns.
What is therapeutic double bind?
a time-limited pragmatic, nonhistorical, step-by-step strategic approach based on the notion that most human problems develop through the mishandling of normal difficulties in life.
What is brief therapy?
A therapeutic technique where a therapist gives a client or family a directive he or she wants resisted; as a result of defying the directive, a change takes place.
What are paradoxical interventions?
An approach in which the family is viewed as continuing to use an epistemology that no longer fits its current behavior patterns.
What is systemic family therapy?
Where Professor Grasher works before she comes here
What is JBLM?
Name 2 out of the 10 communication paradigms
-all behavior is communication at some level
-communication may occur simultaneously at many levels
-every communication has a content and a relationaship
-relationships are defined by command messages
-relationships may be described as symmetrical or complimentary
-symmetrical relationships risk becoming competitive
-complementary communication inevitably involves one person who assumes a superior position and another who assumes an inferior one
-each person punctuates a sequence of events in which he or she is engaged in different ways
A strategic benefit of family therapy
What are the time limitations in this approach force clients to specifically define their current problem rather than speak in generalities?
Therapists take responsibility for devising a strategy for solving the client's presenting problem
What is the main characteristic of strategic family therapy?
The five segments of Milan's therapeutic interview format
What are the precession, the session, the intercession, the intervention, and the possession?
The name and authors of the textbook.
What is Family Therapy an overview;
by Goldberg, Goldberg, and Stanton?
some researchers view it as a key aspect of any effective therapeutic approach, strategic, or otherwise.
what is second order change?
Name three of the eight steps a brief family therapist would take for a new client
1.) defining the problem
2.) identifying the attempted solution
3.) determining the position of the client
4.) designing an intervention
5.) selling the intervention to the client
6.) assigning homework
7.) doing a homework follow up
8.) terminating
Three major steps in designing a paradox, according to Papp.
What are redefining, prescribing, and restraining?
Tom replaced _____ interpersonal pattern with ____ interpersonal pattern.
what are pathologizing interpersonal patterns with healthy interpersonal patterns?
The classroom number we are currently in
What is OM 313?
Three parts of the communication paradigm
What are semantics, syntax, and pragmatics?
name the three types of misguided solutions
- some action is necessary but not taken
-an action taken when it is unnecessary
-action is taken at the wrong level
Haley's view on symptoms
What is a strategy that is adaptive to a current social situation for controlling a relationship when all other strategies have failed?
Describe circular questioning
What is asking each family member questions that address a difference or define a relationship between two other members of the family?
The names of your presenters
What is Morgan, Lisa, Mercedes, Maddison?
The rule of an interactional therapist
What is seeks ways to change outmoded family rules, reveal hidden, personal agendas, and modify or attempt to extinguish paradoxical communication patterns?
Studied and treated 10 families in which the husband had suffered a major heart attack
Who are Segal and Fritz?
Five stages a strategic therapist goes through initially with clients
1.) Brief social Stage
2.) Problem Stage
3.) Interactional Stage
4.) Goal Setting Stage
5.) Task Setting Stage
Name the eight reflexive question and describe two.
1.) Future-oriented questions
2.) Observer-perspective questions
3.) Unexpected counterchange questions
4.) Embedded suggestion questions
5.) Normative-clarifying questions
6.) Distinction-clarifying questions
7.) Questions introducing hypothesis
8.) Process-interrupting questions
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When is the final paper due?