MRI and Milan: Systemic Family Therapies Part I

Dr. Gehart's Lecture on MRI and Milan Systemic Family Therapies that goes with her Cengage texts: Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy and Theory and Treatment Planning in Family Therapy.

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0:00 Introduction
0:56 Lay of the Land
2:27 In a Nutshell: The Least You Need to Know
4:45 Systemic Reframing
9:29 Rumor Has It: The People and Their Stories
11:37 Process of Systemic Therapy
16:22 The Therapeutic Relationship
19:18 Interaction Patterns • Assess problem interaction cycle
22:40 Interactional/Systemic View of Problems
24:40 "More of the Same" Solutions
30:59 Complementary & Symmetrical Patterns
34:24 Type of Change . First order change • Typically involves a change in roles within the system
36:46 The Observation Team
38:35 Goals of MRI Systemic Therapy • Symptom-free interaction patterns • Homeostasis that is problem-free/doesn't involve facing same problem over and over
39:53 Reframing and Less-of-Same
41:43 Therapeutic Double Bind
45:50 Dangers of Improvement
46:58 Restraining, Going Slow
51:54 Forms of Circular Questions
57:08 Long-Term Brief Therapy Structure of the session Pre-session
59:00 Neutrality & Multipartiality