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Miracle Question: “What if you woke up and a miracle happened that solved your problem. What does that look like?”
Exception-finding questions: “ Was there ever a time when the problem did not exist?”
Scaling Questions: Clients quantify their perceptions using a scale. Ex: 1-10
Limited number of sessions (5-10)
Therapist assert that change is inevitable, the question is when it will occur.
Therapist and client(s) look together for solutions.
Co-constructing a problem and goal.
Identifying and amplifying exceptions
Assigning tasks
Evaluating effectiveness
Reevaluating problems and goals
Steve de Shazer-social worker
Insoo Berg
Eve Lipchik
Scott Miller
Michele Weiner-Davis
Joint effort by the therapist and client to bring expertise
Clients are identify their own goals, not the therapists
Do not impose the “right” way for the family to function
Engagement in solution-based dialogue led by acknowledgement and possibility
Concerned with change rather than assessing why the family has developed the problem.
Therapeutic conversation-use of language to focus on conflict revolution rather than “why”.
Non-pathologic
O’Hanlon and Weiner-Davis
Therapeutic ideas derived from solution-based therapy, strategic intervention, and MRI
Functional or dysfunctional families are only in the eyes of the beholder.
No standard for determining a functional familiy. There are many cultural considerations: ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, type of family organization, race, etc.
Resistance is not a useful concept.
Change is inevitable
Only a small change is necessary.
Clients have the strengths and resources to change
Problems are unsuccessful attempts to resolve difficulties.
You don’t need o know a great deal about the problem in order to solve it.
Multiple perspectives.
Constructivism- how we construct our sense of the world based on our previously owned beliefs.
These beliefs are passed down and form narratives (personal and family stories).
The therapist walks with clients into the unknown rather than directing the family with preconcieved notions.
N’neka Stancil
March 31, 2015
Based on postmodern philosophy that emphasizes language and communication.
Therapist and client create meaning with one another as they discuss a problem
Downplay technique or control by the therapist
Collaborate with family members to have empathetic conversations
Postmodern ideas derive from the work of Jacquez Derrida, Paul de Man, and Michel Foucault
Postmodernn movement: The view that each person involved constructs his or her personalized views and interpretations of wha they might be experiencing together.
Our beliefs are what constitute reality.
Postmodern ideas derive from the work of Jacquez Derrida, Paul de Man, and Michel Foucault
Postmodernn movement: The view that each person involved constructs his or her personalized views and interpretations of wha they might be experiencing together.
Our beliefs are what constitute reality.
Constructivism- how we construct our sense of the world based on our previously owned beliefs.
These beliefs are passed down and form narratives (personal and family stories).
The therapist walks with clients into the unknown rather than directing the family with preconcieved notions.
Functional or dysfunctional families are only in the eyes of the beholder.
No standard for determining a functional familiy.
There are many cultural considerations:
ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, type of family organization, race, etc.
problem.
Harry Goolishian (ounder of Galveston Family Institute)
Harlene Anderson
Lynn Hoffman