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Jay Haley. Jay Douglas Haley (July 19, 1923 – February 13, 2007) [1] was one of the founding figures of Problem-solving brief therapy and family therapy in general and of the strategic model of psychotherapy, and he was one of the more accomplished teachers, clinical supervisors, and authors in these disciplines.
Strategic Family Therapy emphasizes the constant communication in a system, even the withdrawing of vocal communication as a form of communicating. There is the function of a report and command , a report being the content of what is communicated, and the command referring to the relational pattern that contextualizes the report, such as how it ...
Brief therapy differs from other schools of therapy in that it emphasizes (1) a focus on a specific problem and (2) direct intervention. In brief therapy, the therapist takes responsibility for working more pro-actively with the client in order to treat clinical and subjective conditions faster.
In 1982 there was the watershed moment where the founders of SFBT, Berg, de Shazer, and their team transformed their brief therapy practice to become solution-focused. A family came to be treated at the Milwaukee Brief Family Therapy. During the assessment, the family provided a list of 27 problems.
Milton H. Erickson (hypnotherapy, strategic therapy, brief therapy) Richard Fisch (brief therapy, strategic therapy) James Framo (object relations theory, intergenerational, family-of-origin therapy) Edwin Friedman (family process in religious congregations) Harry Goolishian (postmodern collaborative therapy and collaborative language systems)
Towards the end of his life, Erickson's students began to formulate conceptual frameworks for his work and to explain and characterize it in their own way. Those efforts have influenced a vast number of psychotherapeutic directions, including brief therapy, family systems therapy, neuro-linguistic programming, among others. [10]
Richard Fisch (1926–2011) was an American psychiatrist best known for his pioneering work in brief therapy.. Dick Fisch, at his home in Menlo Park, CA in 2009. Photograph by James Keim
John H. Weakland (8 January 1919 – 18 July 1995) was one of the founders of brief and family psychotherapy. [1] At the time of his death, he was a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California, co-director of the famous Brief Therapy Center at MRI, and a clinical associate professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at ...