Postmodern Therapy Flashcards
True or false: narrative therapist believed new stories take hold when there is an audience to appreciate and support such stories
T
True or false: one of the functions of a narrative therapist is to ask questions the client and based on the answers, generate further questions
True
True or false: narrative therapy is a relational and anti-individualistic practice
True
True or false: narrative practitioners encourage clients to avoid being reduced by totalising descriptions of their identity
True
True or false: narrative therapist pay more attention to a client’s past than they do to a client’s present and future
False
True or false: in solution-focused therapy gathering extensive information about a problem is a necessary step helping clients find a solution to the problem
False
Solution-focused therapists assist clients in paying attention to the exceptions to their problem patterns
True
True or false: solution-focus therapists use questions that presuppose changed, posit multiple answers, and remained goal-directed and future-orientated
True
In solution-focused therapy, the role of the client is to create solutions based on his or her internal resources
True
Because solution-focused therapy is designed to be brief, it is essential that therapists teach client specific strategies for understanding their problems True or False
False
Which of the following is true of narrative therapy and solution-focused therapy
A. The client is an expert on his or her own life
B. the therapeutic will relationship should be hierarchical
C. The therapist is the expert on the client’s life
D. client should adjust the social and cultural norms
E. for change to occur, clients must first acquire insight into their problems
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A
A major goal of narrative therapy is to
A. Shift from problem-talk to solution-talk
B. assist clients in designing creative solutions to their problem
C. Invite clients to describe their experience in new and fresh language and in doing so open up a new vision of what is possible
D. uncover a clients self- defeating cognitions
E. enable clients to gain clarity about the ways their family of origen still effect them today
C
All are the following are true of narrative therapy except for
A. Viewing problems in the sociopolitical and cultural context
B. Assisting clients in developing an alternative life story
C. Accepting the premise that diagnosis is a basic prerequisite for effective treatment
D. Creating a therapeutic relationship that is collaborative
E. Recognising the clients know what is best for their life and are experts in their own life
C
Which of the following interventions is least likely to be used by narrative therapist
A. Externalising conversations
B. Mapping the influence of a problem
C. Power analysis and intervention
D. The search for unique outcomes
E. Documenting the evidence
C
Which of these techniques is not used in solution focused therapy
A. Lifestyle assessment
B. Scaling questions
C. The miracle question
D. Formula first session task
E. Exception questions
A