SFP Milan Systemic

What is the main purpose of a hypothesis according to the Milan approach?

• To stop you taking sides.

• To make sure you have asked about everything relevant.

• To guide what you do and say in sessions.

• To disrupt the family homeostasis.

After having spoken with the family, the Milan team would have had a discussion of the session with the team only to review hypotheses and plan interventions. What would a contemporary Reflecting Team normally do instead at this stage of the session?

• The same.

• Miss this stage out.

• Ask the family what they think they should do.

• Have a reflecting team discussion observed by family.

True or False: " Like all psychotherapy, family therapy first developed in the age of modernism and it has incorporated its assumptions."

• True

• False

What is this a definition of: "the tendency for families to develop recurrent patterns of interaction which help them to maintain stability, particularly under stress."

• Homeostasis

• Circularity

• Neutrality

• Cybernetics

A system is a complex, rule governed organisation of --------- parts, the properties of which transcend the sum of the parts, and which is surrounded by a boundary that regulates the flow of information and energy in and out of the system” what is the missing word:

• Disparate

• Interacting

• Numerous

• Fragmented

Which of these could usefully be thought of as a system

• A family

• Motorways and roads.

• Plants, animals and the climate and habitat they inhabit.

• Marks and Spencers

• All of the above.

What is the missing word from this quote by Harlene Andersen-"The more attention I paid to what clients were saying, the more I understood that they knew more than I did or ever would about their lives, and the more I realized how my -----------interfered with the telling of their stories

• Curiosity

• Questions

• Knowing

• Feelings

The Milan Team wrote about three guidelines for conducting sessions, Hypothesizing, -----------and neutrality. which word is missing.

• Intentionality

• Post modernism

• Circularity

• Collaboration

What requires the therapist to explicitly appreciate the logic and noble intentions of family members’ behaviour...’ according to Dallos, R and Draper, R (2005)

• Circularity.

• Hypothesizing

• Curiosity

• Positive Connotation

Which of these is most recent in terms of family therapy history:

• Narrative Therapy

• Structural family therapy

• Milan Systemic Family Therapy

• MRI Strategic Family Therapy