Week 5 - Narrative Therapy

Question 1

What are the qualities of Narrative Therapy?

Answer 1

• Meeting the person
• Listening
• Separating persons from problems
• Enacting preferred narratives
• Solidifying

Question 2

In Narrative therapy, we are getting to know people _____ from their problems.

Answer 2

Separate. Learning about hobbies, values, everyday life aspects.

Question 3

By ______ the problem, the therapist looks for unique outcomes in which the problem was not a problem, and helps the client construct a new and ______ for the future.

Answer 3

externalizing

preferred pathway

Question 4

Narrative Therapy focuses on the stories that clients bring to counseling and the process of reconstructing these stories to achieve _____.

Answer 4

preferred lives

Question 5

In Narrative Therapy, the client shares his or her ______, which contains the problem-saturated story.

Answer 5

dominant discourse

Question 6

Central Constructs of Narrative Therapy are:

Answer 6

1) Language
2) Stories

Question 7

In the Central Constructs of Narrative Therapy are, what are the five different types of stories?

Answer 7

1) Problem-Saturated Story
2) Dominant/ Cultural Discourse
3) Alternative Discourse
4) Reauthoring Conversations
5) Externalizing the Problem
Unique Outcomes

Question 8

______ plays a critical role in the way meaning is attached to the self and to one’s lived and future experiences.

Answer 8

Language

Question 9

Reality is constructed and given meaning through ______

Answer 9

Language

Question 10

What kind of language do you watch for in Narrative Therapy?

Answer 10

Shift from 1st & 2nd person

Question 11

Life is a series of _____ that follow a “plot”

Answer 11

Stories

Question 12

______ are created through interactions with others; no essential truths

Answer 12

Stories

Question 13

What type of story is when the “problem” plays the leading role and the client plays the secondary role (generally that of the victim)?

Answer 13

Problem-Saturated Story

Question 14

What type of story is when the story the client tells about his or her life, follows this plot, and takes certain perspectives according to this plot, which may contribute to the problem-saturated story. Then the client projects how things will turn out in the future based on the _____?

Answer 14

Dominant Discourse

Question 15

This is an important part of the dominant discourse, based on culturally-based “truths” that influence our lives.

Answer 15

Cultural Discourse

Question 16

This is an alternative to the dominant discourse or one that does not conform to the dominant plot.

Answer 16

Alternative Discourse

Question 17

________ offer a set of “shoulds” and ethical “values” that are different from the dominant plot.

Answer 17

Alternative Discourses

Question 18

It’s important the therapist can help the client understand Alternative Discourses so that they can successfully ______ with the dominant plot.

Answer 18

coexist

Question 19

The process of assisting clients in separating from saturated tellings of their problem stories. Clients then identify previously neglected aspects of their lived experience that contradict the dominant story told.

Answer 19

Re-authoring Conversations

Question 20

The process of Re-authoring Conversations can result in a _______ of the client’s identity.

Answer 20

thickening and enriching

Question 21

_______ are not part of the dominant stories, they are the exceptions.

Answer 21

Unique outcomes

Question 22

These are also called “Sparkling Events”.

Answer 22

Unique outcomes

Question 23

_______ refers to stories or subplots in which the problem-saturated story does not play out in its typical way.

Answer 23

Unique outcomes

Question 24

______ are used to help clients create the lives they prefer and to develop a more full and accurate account of their own and others’ identities.

Answer 24

Unique outcomes

Question 25

What are three interventions used in Narrative Therapy?

Answer 25

1) Deconstructive Questions
2) Landscape of Action Questions
3) Externalizing the Problem

Question 26

Therapists ask _________ to better understand the client’s story and background.

Answer 26

deconstructive questions

Question 27

__________ :
- Help the client trace the effects of the dominant discourse,
- Empower client to make more conscious choices about which discourses he or she will attempt to modify over time.
- Allow client to externalize conversations, and view problematic stories, beliefs, and attitudes from a different perspective.
- Allow the client to externalize the problem and give it a new name.

Answer 27

deconstructive questions

Question 28

Deconstructive Questions help facilitate discussion of the problem in terms of the following three things:

Answer 28

• History
• Contextual influence
• Effects and results

Question 29

What are the events, circumstances, and stories that make up the client’s problem-saturated story?

Answer 29

Landscape of Action

Question 30

What is the procedure to follow in a Landscape of Action?

Answer 30

1) Map in the landscape of action
2) Harness the power of unique outcomes
3) Thicken the plot

Question 31

What is called when the therapist helps the client view the problem outside of him- or herself?

Answer 31

Externalizing the Problem

Question 32

______reported the following benefits to externalization:
- Decreases unproductive conflict & blame between family members.
Invites people to unite in a struggle against the problem and reduce its influence.
- Identifies new opportunities for reducing the influence of the problem.
- Encourages a lighter, less stressed approach to interacting with the problem.
- Increases interactive dialogue rather than a repetitive monologue about the problem.

Answer 32

White & Epston (1990)

Question 33

Social constructs such as _____, ______, and ______ affect an individual client’s narratives. As such, Narrative Therapy may be well-suited for diverse clients (White & Epston, 1990).

Answer 33

ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status

Question 34

Clients are able to explore _________ & _________ that have been impacted or even marginalized by the dominant culture. Awareness can thus be brought to the taken-for-granted stories of the larger culture (e.g., women who feel constrained by gender stereotypes) (Swan, 1998).

Answer 34

family dynamics & cultural practices

Question 35

The assumption of an ___________ between therapist and client may not conform to some clients’ expectations (e.g., clients may be more interested in problem-solving strategies– at least at the outset).

Answer 35

egalitarian relationship