Ericksonian

Question 1

Milton Erickson - father of hypnotherapy
influenced strategic family therapy
neurolinguistic programming

Question 2

indirect suggestion could result in therapeutic behavioral change. converse with clients using metaphors, contradictions, symbols, and antidotes to influence their behavior rather than direct orders.

Question 3

critical to “put yourself in the patient’s shoes” and truly understand

Question 4

Erickson believed that trances happen every day to varying degrees – for example the mind wanders during a commute to work, during meeting

Question 5

unconscious mind could still be listening. indirect suggestion that, whether the patient realized it or not, would result in therapeutic change in the patient.

Question 6

Erickson championed indirect hypnosis as a more ethical and effective alternative for clinical settings than direct hypnosis.

Question 7

Traditional HypnosisErickson’s ApproachAuthoritativePermissiveDirectIndirectResistanceAccommodating“You will lose weight”

“You might wish to discuss the alternatives

to eating, if you are ready to do so”

Question 8

He believed that one cannot force the unconscious mind to change, but metaphors, contradictions, symbols can create openings.

Question 9

6 Core Competencies:

• Tailoring (treatment)
• Utilization (of client’s attributes)
• Strategic (seek out challenges, goals)
• Destabilization(flexibility - learning new patterns to adapt)
• Experiential (clients experts of their own experien
• Naturalistic

Question 10

four skills:

• Observation,
• Validation,
• Cultivation, and
• Challenge

Question 11

8 Stages of PsychoSocial Development

• Trust vs Mistrust 12 - 18 mos
• Autonomy vs Shame/doubt 18 mo - 3 years
• Initiative vs Guilt 3- 5 years
• Industry vs. Inferiority 5 - 12 years
• Identity vs. Confusion 12 - 18 years
• Intimacy vs. Isolation 18 - 40
• Generativity vs. Stagnation 40 - 65 years
• Integrity vs. Despairover 65