Wave 5: Social Constructionist Flashcards
Social constructionist overview
- post modern
solution focused and narrative therapy
Narrative therapy overview
- Michael White, David Epsom
- people are experts in their own lives.
- there is a stock of lived experience that exists outside the dominant stories people share which can be a source of new meaning
- pathologising descriptions of people can collude with problem stories
Where do problems come from?
narrative therapy
the way people understand themselves and their relationship with the world is developed by their interactions
views people and problems as seperate entities.
assumes peoples skills and mindset will assist them with reducing the influence of problems
How does narrative therapy support change?
using storytelling metaphor to assist in framing social constructionism.
deconstructing dominant discourses
listens for dominant plot as well as alternate discourse to find the absent but implicit.
Narrative therapy techniques
- double listening
- externalising
- scaffolding
- re-authoring
- re-telling
Solution focused therapy overview
- De Shazer, Inso Berg Erikson
people are healthy, competent and have developed abilities to construct solutions.
people already have innate abilities to manage lifes challenges - sometimes we lose direction/awareness.
How does solution focused therapy support change?
- taking focus off the problem
- eliciting competencies out of the client
- inviting self agency/action through developed concrete steps
Solution focused techniques
- hosting
- pre-session change
- goaling
- scaling questions
- coping questions
- steps
