Family Therapy Memory Tricks

Eliciting Stance
(Penn small steamer round the coast)

Probing Stance (Reflexive Questions)

Contextual Stance similarity-difference Connection (Jac Brown 1997)

Matching Stance - mimesis, Erickson.

Applifying Stance
Sol Focused De Shazzer, Lipchick.)

                         
Terry Real 1990 Family Process
Elicit, Prob, Context, Match, Amplify. (Elpro-conmatchamp)

John Weakland- in JFT 1995 B Cade.
With Don Jackson, Jay Haley, Milton Erickson (Mimisis) created MRI model,
1) Focus on what the client actually wants.
2) Therapy can be brief and change can be quick.

Waltzlawick -1972
5 Axioms
1) Communication is inevitable.
2) All communication has content and relationship
3) punctuation and exchange.
4) Digital(verbal, syntax) and analog symantics/ meaning. 
5) Symmetric relationships and Complementary
  
Gregory Bateson- homoeostasis, equifinality, cybernetics (Norbert Wiener)

Structural
Positive Connotations.  Disrupting-Perturbing- giving prescriptions -directives - symbolic actions- interrupting patterns.
Hierarchies of power, boundaries sub-systems, Closed, open systems, rules- Report and command functions (Jackson- subliminal rules). 

Use of Self- Manipulative??
Haley and Madanes working with-

1) Involuntary vs Voluntary
2) Helplessness vs Power    
3) Metaphorical vs Literal   
4) Hierarchical vs Equality 
5) Hostility vs Love            

Paradox- Double Bind

Karl Tomm 1988 Family Process
Linear (direct- single answer) ----Constructive
Circular - open, many answers----Liberating   
Strategic - 'on the spot' ------ Constraining           
Reflexive - Reflecting on-----Generating         

Circumplex Model

Degrees of enmeshment/ Adaptability

Engagement/ Cohesion                                                 Russell (1979) From Fritz Simon et al (1985)

Jim Wilson 2007 The performance of Practice
Self Reflexive Practice
Scale One Systemic Humility vs Passionate Conviction  
Scale Two Spontaneity vs Forward Planning                   
Scale Three Simplicity and Complexity                             
Scale Four  Seriousness vs Playfulness                               
Scale Five Emotional Closeness vs Distance                      
Scale Six Advocacy vs Curiosity