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This podcast is the narrated version of my article Using Tasks to Disrupt Problem Patterns.
You may already be familiar with the idea of giving your clients ‘homework’ to do between sessions. Therapists like Milton Erickson and Jay Haley took this a step further, famously assigning behavioural tasks that could make a massive difference to their clients – and yours.
In this episode I talk about:
- Strategic therapy tasks
- Prescribe the symptom
- Interrupt the pattern
- Use metaphor
- Create an ordeal (carefully!)
- Remember: set tasks wisely
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References/Notes:
- See Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. by Jay Hayley.
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