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Strategic Therapy combines the concepts of ________ and __________
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The Palo Alto Group & Milton Erikson
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What is cybernetics?
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The study of how information processing systems are controlled by feedback loops.
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There are three theories which follow Strategic and Systemic theories. Name them.
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Mental Research Institute Model
Haley Madanes Model Milan Systemic Model |
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What is a paradoxical intervention?
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A strategic intervention built around a statement containing messages at different logical levels which contradict one another. The subtle contradiction is used to generate change.
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Who were the members of the Palo Alto Group?
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Gregory Bateson, Jay Haley, John Weakland, William Fry & Don Jackson.
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Who was Milton Erikson?
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A psychiatrist who practiced hypnotherapy. He developed and introduced paradoxical interventions which capitalized on people's natural reluctance to change - to bring about rapid change.
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What is a double-bind?
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6-step concept in which an individual receives contradictory commands within an important emotional relationship. The recipient of the information can neither comment nor escape the situation.
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What are the defining characteristics of Strategic Therapy models?
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1. Focus on current family communication patterns that serve to maintain the problem.
2. Treatment goals that derive from the problem/symptom presented. 3. A belief that change can be rapid and does not require insight into the cause of the problem. 4. The use of resistance to promote change by applying specific strategies |
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Name two powerful insights from Strategic Theory?
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1. Family members perpetuate problems by their own actions.
2. Directives tailored to the needs of a particular family can sometimes bring about sudden & decisive change. |
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What is first-order change?
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The behavior in the system changes
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What is second-order change?
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The family rules (beliefs) of the system change.
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What was the Mental Research Institute?
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A brief therapy center founded by Don Jackson whose goal was to change the presenting complaint rather than interpret or explore the past.
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What is a feedback loop?
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A circular mechanism whereby feedback is reintroduced into the system, in a looping chain of events that influence one another.
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Who were the members of the Mental Research Institute?
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Don Jackson, Jay Haley, Virginia Satir, Paul Weakland, Paul Watzlawick, Arthur Bodin and Janet Beavin
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What is a negative Feedback Loop?
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Ways the famlies correct a deviation in family functioning in order to maintain homeostasis.
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Define reframing?
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The use of language to give new meaning to a situation
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What is a paradoxical intervention?
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Asking the family to do something that seems in opposition to the goals of treatment
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Prescribe the symptom?
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Type of paradoxical intervention: The family is requested to continue to perform or even expand the symptom
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What are restraining techniques?
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Type of paradoxical intervention: Members are warned of the dangers of change, are restrained from trying to change or are asked to change slowly
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What is positioning?
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Type of paradoxical intervention: Therapist amplifies or exaggerates the family's explanation of the problem to a point that the family will disagree
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