This session focuses on a 17-year-old girl in court-referred therapy for theft and past suicide attempts. Struggling with academic and emotional pressure, she feels overshadowed by her siblings and burdened by family stress. Therapist Neil Schiff emphasizes restructuring family roles, encouraging her siblings to share responsibilities and guiding parents to recognize each child’s contribution. The goal is to ease the girl's emotional load and strengthen overall family functioning.
This session introduces the core principles of MRI’s brief therapy model, focusing on how small, specific behavioral interventions can disrupt entrenched patterns and promote change. Drawing on videotaped case material, the presentation explores direct prescriptions, paradoxical strategies, and positive reframing. Through clinical examples—ranging from perfectionism to family conflict—the session shows how symptoms often serve as solutions to deeper issues, and how shifting perspective can open new paths forward.
