Enchantment and Intervention in Family Therapy

Lankton, Stephen R.; Lankton, Carol H.

doi:10.2307/584665

Cited by 7 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In addition, Milton Erickson was noted for his use of telling stories or anecdotes in session for therapeutic means (Rosen, 1982;Zeig, 1980). Lankton and Lankton (1986), basing their work on the therapeutic approach of Milton Erickson, developed a formula for not only developing meaningful stories but also delivering them in a therapeutic context. Their approach involves the use of multiple embedded metaphors.…”

Section: Therapeutic Storytellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their approach involves the use of multiple embedded metaphors. This approach (see Lankton & Lankton, 1983, 1986, describes a way in which stories intended to focus and uncover resources are stacked within one another. For example, the therapist begins to tell a story designed to produce a change in attitude, but before the story is completed and at a specific time, the therapist begins to tell a new story that facilitates a client experiencing a particular emotion.…”

Section: Therapeutic Storytellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Changing Emotion: The Use of Therapeutic Storytelling

Parker

Wampler²

2006

J Marital Family Therapy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Even though using metaphors in a therapeutic context is common, there are very few studies that address their effects. This study examines the effects of storytelling in therapy. After discussing a problem in a current relationship, 42 female participants were randomly assigned to receive either a story or psychoeducational information. Results indicated that both treatments were equally successful in reducing amounts of negative affect and negative feelings toward the relationship. In addition, each story was able to facilitate a change in emotional valence. Finally, participants saw no difference between the depth and smoothness of each session. Examples on using storytelling within different models of marriage and family therapy are provided.

show abstract

Section: Therapeutic Storytellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Therapeutic Storytellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Emotion: The Use of Therapeutic Storytelling

Parker

Wampler²

2006

J Marital Family Therapy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…While Haley (16) recorded many Ericksonian strategies early on, such as indirect suggestions (8,9,27,29), metaphoric messages (9,12,13), and parabolic anecdotes (13,16,27), the more provocative symptom prescriptions and paradoxical interventions received more press (17,18,32,47). Recently, a number of second-generation Ericksonians have revived the nonbehavioral, cognitive aspects of his craft for family therapy practitioners (27,28,36). With nonbehavioral interventions, clients' attitudes and approaches to problems become the immediate targets of changenot the behaviors they are employing.…”

Section: Ericksonian Roots To Task Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With Indirect/Behavioral tasks, the therapist skirts the presenting problem but creates a context for people to discover their own solutions. The problem is alluded to by therapeutic suggestion (4,8,9,27,29) or by assigning a metaphorical task (1,28). The former intervention plants "seed thoughts" that only "suggest" new behaviors.…”

Section: Indirect/behavioral Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Paradigm for Construction of Family Therapy Tasks

Brown-Standridge

1989

Family Process

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Typically, family therapy task interventions involve direct assignment of specific behaviors, which may or may not encourage client compliance. To enhance the clinician's probability of bringing about progress in treatment, this article broadens the parameters of task intervention to include (a) Direct versus Indirect, (b) Behavioral versus Nonbehavioral, and (c) Paradoxical versus Nonparadoxical dimension alternatives. The resulting 2 x 2 x 2 model, the Family Therapy Task Construction Paradigm, yields eight possible choices for end-of-the-session punctuation. Each option is linked to corresponding treatment contexts and illustrated with examples from productive case vignettes.

show abstract

“…Another approach, developed by Erickson, involves the use of ambiguous and intriguing tasks, a technique known as 'ambiguous function assignment' (Lankton and Lankton, 1986).…”

Section: Hindsight Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

The chicken and the egg: a hindsight view of therapy

Furman¹,

Ahola²

1989

Journal of Family Therapy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper the authors suggest that instead of holding the view that the sequence of therapy follows the path of first interviewing and gathering data, then understanding and finally intervening on the basis of what is thought to be the cause of the problem, we could benefit from recognizing that the reverse view is equally plausible. According to this reverse view, which the authors call hindsight, therapists, unaware of it themselves, first come up with interventions and then, in hindsight, create explanations or particular ways of understanding problems in order to make their interventions seem rational and justifiable. A number of factors influencing therapists' choice of interventions are explored. Finally some potential advantages of the hindsight view are examined.

show abstract

Enchantment and Intervention in Family Therapy

Cited by 7 publications

References 0 publications

Changing Emotion: The Use of Therapeutic Storytelling

Changing Emotion: The Use of Therapeutic Storytelling

A Paradigm for Construction of Family Therapy Tasks

The chicken and the egg: a hindsight view of therapy

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About