Describe The Basic Premises Of The MRI Approach

1. Describe the basic premises of the MRI approach to psychotherapy. Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of the implications of the basic premises for psychotherapy.
MRI is a precursor to some of the postmodern approaches, such as the solution-focused therapy, narrative therapy and collaborative therapy. It is an example of a cybernetic approach through communication and control processes. One does not need to the nature of the problem. It’s enough to figure out how to control it. Milton Erikson contributes to the foundation of MRI approach to focus on the use of language, strategy and indirection. MRI approach is brief for each client’s therapy to be done in ten seasons. In the MRI approach, the presenting problem, there are two perceptions are important: the client mishandled the problem for it to be an event and what are the client attempts in approaching the problem. Why should the client persist with the solutions that are failing? So client presents the problem as specifically as possible. The problem may be not be explicit, which it needs to be, because the approach is symptom-oriented, therefore it is significant for the presenting problem to
Small changes can lead to big changes. Between therapist-client interactions, there is no resistance, but must have a willingness to change. If there is resistance, there is something that the therapist is doing wrong and must analyze what they have done wrong or start over. It is important to acknowledge and recognize resistance from the client as it is a form of feedback. It is the therapist’s role to focus on the solutions, to compliment the client and use positive language. Solution focused therapy is extremely simple in understanding the concept, however implementing the therapy seems to be more difficult. Problems that the client brings to the table are mostly like because of