Chapter 13

Question 0

What is social constructionism?

Answer 0

It is a psychological expression of the postmodern worldview, it values the clients reality without disputing whether it is accurate or rational.

Question 1

Who are he founders of postmodern therapy?

Answer 1

Insoo Kim Berg
Steve De Shazer
Michael White
David Epston

Question 2

What is solution focused brief therapy?

SFBT

Answer 2

It is a future focused, goal orientated therapeutic approach to brief therapy.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

1. Find out what the client want rather than searching for what they do not want.
2. Do not look for pathology, and do not attempt to reduce clients by giving them a diagnostic label.
3. If what clients are doing is not working, encourage them to experiment with doing something different.
4. Keep therapy brief by approaching each session as if it were the last and only session.

Question 4

What are the three kinds of relationships that me develop between therapists and the clients?

Answer 4

1. Customer
2. Complainant
3. Visitor

Question 5

What are the therapeutic techniques and procedures?

Answer 5

1. Pretherapy change
2. Exception questions
3. The miracle question
4. Scaling questions
5. Formula first session talk
6. Therapist feed back to clients
7. Terminating
8. Application to group counselling

Question 6

What are the several different key concepts?

Answer 6

Focus of narrative therapy
The role of stories
Listening with an open mind

Question 7

What is narrative therapy?

Answer 7

When the clients construct the meaning of life in interpretive stories.

Question 8

What is normalizing judgement?

Answer 8

It is any kind of judgement that locates a person on a normal curve and is issued to assess intelligence, mental health, or normal behavior.

Question 9

What is externalization?

Answer 9

It is one process for deconstructing the power of a narrative. It separates the person from identifying the problem.

Question 10

What are externilizing conversations?

Answer 10

They counteract oppressive problem saturated stories

Question 11

What are the two stages of structuring externilizing conversations?

Answer 11

1. To map the influence of the problem in the persons life.

2. To nap the influence of the persons life back on the problem.