What is Strategic Family Therapy? | MFT Model Reviews

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I love it. Thank you. Could you do MRI PLEASE??

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[@kharmon]

I'm studying for the LMHC licensing exam and I've been really struggling to understand the difference between structural and strategic family therapy. Your teaching is really helping me to finally understand and retain the theories - I'm so grateful! Thank you for sharing your work and improving our field.

[@accidentaltherapist6597]

What most people don't know is that almost of them were students of Milton Erickson. Shall mention some of them: Hayley, Weakland, Minuchin, Watzlawick, Including Bateson and Steve deShazer and Insoo Kim Berg, Rossi and so on . How did the name Double Bind came from? It came from Erickson as he had been using bind and double binds for couple of decades. Strategic and Solution focused brief therapy are both extentions of Milton Erickson work. For those that don't know. Erickson is the most studied and written about psychotherapist of all time. He is also the most effective and efficient therapist of all time. Also has more documented case studies than anyone else. To this day no other therapist has contributed in so many areas of psychiatry and psychotherapy in the past century. I recommend Erickson and want you that no matter how skilled and educated you are studying Erickson would be the challenge of your career. Objectively speaking. P.s also Cloe Madanes. It's overwhelming, isn't it. Erickson also had deep and profound relationship with Aldus Huxley

[@TimeTravelingBirds]

Currently studying for the licensure exam and ive struggled so much to keep the structural, strategic, and system family models seperate, so this morning I found your videos and they are helping me SO much. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@TimeTravelingBirds]

My "quick key concepts" from this video are: "Haley's comet is a Paradox that you can only see Briefly every 1(st) or 2(nd) years. It takes Strategic Positioning of a telescope to see it Directly. Its a big (or)Deal the First Time you see it." Which breaks down to (in the order of the mnemonic not what necessarily makes "sense" organizationally lol): - Haley - paradoxical techniques - foundation for Briefy Therapy - 1st and 2nd order change - Strategic family therapy is the model - Positioning technique - Directly --> Directives - Ordeals - First session is very important Hope that helps someone else!

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[@ragray25]

I'm a current Marriage and Family Therapy student. I really learned so much about strategic family therapy. Thank you so much.

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Thank you, Steph Anya. I am in a human services class right now and I am writing a paper with a scenario being a 17-year-old female having problems after her parent's divorce and they remarry. I have to give my initial thoughts and do an assessment of the case providing therapy that I think would work for the given situation. Thank you for explaining this in detail. I FINALLY understand it. The lecture they gave this week was pretty vague as far as what it all means. I will continue to watch your videos and learn more. I want to become an affective chemical dependency counselor. This will help me so much. Have a great weekend.

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Thank you so much for explaining it so well. I was struggling to differentiate between family therapies for my upcoming LMHC exam but after watching your videos, I am more confident about these topics. Thank you.

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I AM SO happy, my professor told me to watch this video,, I am presently working as a therapist, and in school to get my second masters degree. I love the ideas of family therapy,

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[@Self-helper415]

I look at strategic therapy as reverse psychology it’s just a easier way for me to remember in my brain what it looks like thank you for the video

[@toddcapella2023]

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[@PBTKaizen]

Love these! taking Family Therapy Class now and this really helps to put things in a very clear concise and easy to digest manner.

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[@cjprather5]

As a MFT student this was amazing and it helped me out a lot to better understand the content. Thank You. I learned today from your video that I am the Strategic Model

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I’m so glad that you found a model that resonates with you!

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[@StephAnya]

Thank you for watching and let me know anything else that would be helpful!

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Steph Anya!!!!!!!! Question, would you be willing to do a video about the cybernetic model?

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Omg thank you so much for doing this videos. Can you do MRI and Milan as well. Thanks again !!!

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I agree those 2 models confuses me

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Will be using it for my Family Therapy class; thanks for making such a high-quality video.

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I appreciate you for watching!

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[@StephAnya]

Glad it was helpful!

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Really enjoy your videos! You have helped me tremendously with understanding these various models of family therapy.

[@StephAnya]

So glad to hear that!

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Thank you for making it so simple, I'm learning more from you than grad school :)

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Thank you! Yes, could you please do a video on MRI. I get Strategic, MRI, and Milan confused all the time.

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[@taylorvaughan2078]

I am in graduate school for social work right now and this video helped me understand and appreciate Strategic Family Therapy in greater detail!! The book was so confusing to me and your use of examples was so very helpful!!! Thank you 🤍

[@Dollyxolove]

I appreciate your examples of the interventions but I have a questions in regards to the paradoxical and positioning intervention. How can we know if the family may be appropriate for this intervention? Is it more intuitive or is there a criteria? You mentioned that this can quickly go amiss with families because it can spark up a lot of tension that can potentially lead to violence so I just want to know what families we can implement this intervention to. I also have a concern when implementing positioning. You also mentioned that with this intervention you are exaggerating the symptoms. With the example that you gave couldn’t it potentially go amiss as well? Lets use your example, you said “ yeah, when you guys are arguing because you hate each other” the goal is to stop and make them realize that their problem is not as big as it seems. My problem with this is well what happens if they get into a huge argument and the statement you mentioned “because you hate each other” come back into mind and they trick themselves into thinking, “wait I think I may actually hate my partner”. We then now have another problem of resolving these new feelings. I only thought of this because I thought of a person who may potentially have BPD who’s feelings are a bit more unregulated if it is not being treated let alone not diagnosed therefore not receiving treatment.

[@ashtoe_]

Confirmed - would love a video detailing the history of the MRI!

[@StephAnya]

Got it!

[@tomisakin]

PMHMP student here, this is on point. Coincides perfectly with Wheeler 2022

[@ashleybolling1815]

Steph can you cover MRI therapy? I love your videos, I am a current masters degree student and I am so thankful for your videos before and after reading my text books. You make it easy to understand! Thanks for the blessing!

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Thank you for watching!!

[@mar1493]

Extremely helpful thank you so much

[@GuruSahai]

Excellent presentation. Thank you!!! :)

[@mariamorgan7410]

Steph, you did such a wonderful job explaining this theory. The green book left me confused btwn MRI and Strategic. I love that you provided an intro of Haley and used the same case example all throughout. I liked and subscribed. I will be watching these after doing my readings in preparation for the National MFT Exam. Super glad I found you. -- I did notice that you did not review enactments.

[@StephAnya]

Hi Maria! I’m so glad that you found this helpful! The models have so many similarities. I can’t go into depth about everything, so I usually just highlight what’s in my AATBS book. Maybe I could make a separate video about enactments! Thanks for letting me know ♥️

[@marlahernandez2689]

I was going to note the same. Pretend techniques

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[@coachharp280]

Yes, please do a video explaining MRI, also a video with lots of examples of first, second and third order changes! Not much examples online

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[@sarahudnall1669]

Thanks so much for these videos! I'm prepping for my comp exam for my masters program and I was really struggling to separate strategic and structural family therapy in my head!

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[@StephAnya]

Aw thanks so much!

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You’ve got this! And there’s a new one coming out today at 2!

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[@SarahGarcia-f6e]

Would love to have a video on MRI. Don't think I've seen that you did one and not sure if you're still doing these.

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[@boeboe7661]

The strategy of paradoxical intervention sounds similar to “wake up call”, the way that I understood the intervention is to “let the relationship naturally fail” without the relationship failing. E.g. the routine of fighting becoming an agreed upon behaviour that happens at a specific time - the therapy expectation is that the participants become “aware” of their unconscious family dynamics. The “child acting out” portions are based upon the caregivers, so I will not think on that too much.

[@Lvcharm]

Thank you 🙏🏽 this helps so much.