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Family Therapy and Beyond: Where is the Milan Systemic Approach Today?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1999

David Campbell
David Campbell
Affiliation:
Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
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Abstract

This paper reviews the current position of the Milan Approach in the family therapy field. Over the past 20 years this approach has made a major contribution to the development of family therapy theory and practice in the U.K. However, the ideas have been modified in order to fit different client groups in a range of settings; until today, the Milan, or Post-Milan approach is an amalgam of the original concepts and new techniques. This paper describes the development of this approach and highlights the following topics as central to current thinking: language, power, narrative, family resilience, externalising, focusing on change, and solution focused approaches. Several techniques of the Post-Milan approach are demonstrated in a discussion of one case treated by the author.

Keywords

SystemicMilanfamily therapyexternalisation
Type
Therapy Matters
Information
Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1999 , pp. 76 - 84
Copyright
© 1999 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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