Post - Modernism Flashcards
In solution-focused therapy, when is termination?
when the problem has been solved.
The idea that “Change is Constant” is a part of which family therapy?
Solution Focused Therapist views change as always occurring. The family; however, is not noticing shifts and change.
Challenging the Symptom comes from which family therapy model?
What strategy does it refer to?
Structural:
***Offers the family alternative ways of viewing the problem related to the family’s structure.
Which therapy introduced this concept:
attending to the language and meaning used by clients, therapists understand the lived reality of their clients and how they experience the meaning of situations relationships, others, and self.
social - constructivism in Solution-Focused Therapy
Joining and Accommodating is a early stage intervention used in
Structural therapy (Classical)
The family’s response to the Miracle Question provides information to the therapist with regard to what aspects of treatment planning?
The Miracle Question occurs in the first session of Solution-Focused Therapy.
The way that the family answers the question provides information to be used in
1) assessment
2) goal setting
3) interventions
If an unplanned enactment occurs during a session, it is referred to as__________.
Which theorist coined this name?
Spontaneous Behavioral Sequence
Minuchin
This statement: “The therapist does not have to understand the problem to solve it.” Comes from which Family Therapy? What does it mean?
Solution-Focused Therapy
It means that the solution is not obviously related to the problem. The therapist does not need to understand the problem to find the solution.
Which therapy includes maintaining a focus on the client family’s strengths and resources?
Solution-Focused therapy
Milan Systemic Therapy has a concept referred to as Time. What is this concept and what does it contribute to that therapy?
This is the realization that a family’s historic understanding of a problem, affects their current perspective of the problem. The historical perspective (Dad was a monster) causes them to selectively remember only the times that dad was not a monster.
Volini (2020) p. 351
The concept of “Working Through” is a product of which theory in which school? What does it mean?
Working Through comes from Object - Relations. Working through is the idea that the therapist will support the client in identifying the implications of the insight the client gained. What will that mean for future behavior/thoughts?
Narrative Family Therapy focuses on__________________________________.
These people are credited with its development:
the subjective, lived reality of each individual. Reality as socially constructed.
Michael White (Autralian) influenced by
a) Michael Foucault
b) David Epston (New Zealand)
White had this construct about the therapy experience:
Therapy is an environment where people can reflect on the narratives they have constructed about themselves. People have the opportunity to identify their life experiences and the influence of those experiences creating new narratives congruent to the ways that they want to begin living.
Volini (2020) p. 191
Narrative Therapy has a power dynamic that places clients as
The experts of their own lives.
Narrative Therapy has a set of interventions which work together to
free people from the oppression of their problem-saturated stories about themselves. The stories begin to form a theme and contradictory experiences are ignored / devalued.
Narrative therapy appreciates the multiple contexts in which the clients live. These contexts include;
social
political
Clients as Consultants:
What is this?
What therapy model does it belong to?
a) bringing discharged clients back to serve as consultants on current cases. (reinforce growth and increase collaborative stance)
b) Narrative
Collaborative Case notes
Narrative
The therapist may write case notes collaboratively with the client at the end of sessions.
Co-therapist
Symbolic - Experiential (Whitaker)
Coaching
Belongs to Bowen’s multigenerational.
Bowen used Coaching to get clients started on the process of differentiating - maintaining that they were responsible for the work of the process.
The idea of complementarity flows from which therapy and means what?
The balanced relationship between to individuals that work together toward a goal bringing different skills to the process.
Structural
Constitutionalist Self
This is a concept from Narrative Therapy that reframes client’s perception of self as continuously changing/ growing / evolving. The self is being changed through interaction with others and environment, deconstruction and constructed.
Deconstruction Questions
Questions and conversation with the therapist that allows the client to take apart and examine experiences from different perspectives. The client is encouraged to decide what stories or parts of stories the client wants to identify with.
The Dirty Game is a family situation recognized by which school of family therapy?
What does it refer to?
Milan Systemic recognizes that when parents struggle for control, they triangulate in symptomatic child who then works to defeat them. This is the Dirty Game.
Milan System understands family issues in terms of power and games to have power.
What school of family therapy uses displacement stories as an intervention?
What is the purpose?
Bowen Multigeneration Family Therapy uses displacement stories. By having the family focus on an issue in another family, they create emotional distance and can better use rational thought to problem-solve.
Externalizing Questions
Identify therapy model and definition.
Narrative Therapy
questions oriented toward helping the client to externalize the problem - experiencing it as outside of self. This promotes agency and diminishes the sense of powerlessness.
When Depression last visited you….
The “I” position is an intervention that belongs to which theory?
The purpose of the “I” position is to aid in
Bowen Multigenerational
To aid in differentiation. This is part of “Coaching.” Speaking from the “I” position promotes accountability and helps break cycles of reactivity.
Landscape of Action Questions: definition and theory.
a) Questions that explore specific situations and efforts that are congruent with the preferred narrative.
b) Narrative
Landscape of Meaning Questions
An intervention used by Narrative therapists to move therapy forward. Once a client’s preferred narrative is identified, the therapist helps the client to speculate about what that preferred narrative says about the client.
(Attentive husband)
Mapping the Influence of the Person
Narrative therapy
Exploring the role that the person has had on the life of the problem.
Mapping the Influence of the Problem
A narrative therapy intervention that helps the client to explore the role that the problem had on the life of the individual.
Narrative Metaphor
Freedman and Combs (1996). pp. 14-15
The concept of a “non-anxious presence” is a part of which family therapy model.
It is:
a) Bowen Multigenerational
b) The part played by the therapist of sitting in the family’s anxiety and influencing the family to be less reactive and more rational. Modeling differentiation
restraint is a concept presented by ______.
Gregory Bateson, It refers to
The concept of double description so important to family therapy originated with this theorist:
Gregory Bateson
Bateson had an idea that change became apparent when something was tracked through time. What essential factor was needed for people to detect differences?
Time - differences were detectable through time.
Social Constructivism
main premise is that the beliefs, values, institutions, customs, labels, laws, divisions of labor that make up our social realities are constructed by the members of a culture as they interact with one another across generations and day to day.
Freedman & Combs (1997) pp. 16 & 17
Narrative therapy believes that the primary tool that humans use to make sense of their lived experience is
narrative metaphor
our knowledge of the world is carried in the form of various mental maps the help us to interpret external or objective “reality.”
People with different maps come up with a different reality.
Preference Questions
Narrative Therapy
Questions that check in with the client to determine if the direction of therapy is the direction that the therapist wants to go.
Preferred Narrative
Narrative therapy
Following the deconstruction of a narrative, the client decides what the sort of preferred narrative they may wish to construct moving forward.
Problem-saturated stories
These are the kept stories of the client which emphasize a metaphoric problem through time. The meanings of the stories are projected into the future. The subjugated story, which holds more of the truth, is unseen.
Proxemics
Spatial relations between those in dialogue.
Communication theory
Restraining the process of change in an intervention belonging to which theory?his
MRI Systemic
This is a type of intervention used by narrative therapists to assist the client in externalizing the problems through mapping the influence of the problem and mapping the influence of the person.
Relative Influencing Questions
relative influencing questions
a way to structure externalizing conversations. The clients are mapping the influence of both the problem on their life and their influence on the problem. This process opens space for unique outcomes.
Shaping competence is an intervention from which family therapy. What is this intervention?
Structural therapy.
Noticing and punctuating the healthy positive behaviors and ignoring the negative.
Reflecting Teams
Milan and Narrative
Ripple Effect
what is it and where did the concept originate?
Change in one part of a system will result in change in the greater system
Cybernetics
