Chap 13- Postmodern Approaches

Question 1

______ believe that realities do not exist independent of observational processes

Answer 1

Postmodernists

Question 2

_______ is a therapeutic perspective within a postmodern worldview. It stresses the client’s reality without disputing whether it is accurate or rational.

Answer 2

Social constructionism

Question 3

In the _________, therapists still retain all of the knowledge and personal, experiential capacities they have gained over years of living, but they allow themselves to enter the conversation with curiosity and with an intense interest in discovery.

Answer 3

Not-knowing position

Question 4

_____ differs from trad therapies by eschewing the past in favour of both the present and the future. Therapists focus on what is possible.

Answer 4

Solution-focused based therapy (SFBT)

Question 5

What are the 4 steps that characterize the proess of SFBT?

Answer 5

1. Find out what clients want rather than searching for what they don’t want
2. don’t look for pathology, and do not attempt to reduce cleints by diagnostic label. look for what they are going that is already working and encourage them in that direction
3. if what clients are doing is not working, encourage them to experiment with doing something dif
4. keep therapy brief by approaching as if each session were the last and only session.

Question 6

Solution focused therapists ask ______ to direct clients to times when the problem did not exist, or when the problem was not as intense.

Answer 6

Exception questions are those poast exp in a cleint’s life when it would be reasonable to have expected the problem to occur, but somehow it did not.

Question 7

What is a miracle question?

Answer 7

a main SFBT technique. The therapist asks “If a miracle happened and the problem you have was solved overnight, how would you know it was solved and what would be different?

Question 8

SF therapists also use _____ when change in human experiences are not easily observed, such as feelings, moods, or communication eg. if a woman reports feeling panic or anxiety she might be asked “on a scole of 0-10 how would you rate your anxiety right now?

Answer 8

scaling questions

Question 9

The ________ is a form of homework a therapist might give clients to complete between their first and second session.

Answer 9

Formula first session task (FFST)

Question 10

What are the 3 components that are apart of the tsructure of the summary feedback?

Answer 10

1. compliments
2. bridge that links the initial compliment to the suggested tasks that will be given
3. suggesting tasks- eg homework

Question 11

During the narrative conversation, attention is given to avoiding ______ which reduces the complexity of the individual by assigning an all embracing single description to the essence of the person.

Answer 11

Totalizing language

Question 12

______ counteract oppresive, problem-saturated stories and empower clients to feel competent to handle the roblems they face.

Answer 12

externalizing conversations

Question 13

what are 2 stages of structuring exernalizing conversations?

Answer 13

1. map the influence of the problem in the person’s life

2. map the influence of the person’s life onto the proble

Question 14

_______ of the problem on the person generates a great deal of useful info and often results in ppl feelings less shamed and blamed

Answer 14

mapping the influence

Question 15

Ppl can continually and actively _____ their lives, and narrative therapists invite clients to author alternative stoires through “unique outcomes’ defined as events that are not predicted by the problem saturated story

Answer 15

Reauthor