Week 5 - Narrative Therapy Flashcards
What are the qualities of Narrative Therapy?
- Meeting the person
- Listening
- Separating persons from problems
- Enacting preferred narratives
- Solidifying
In Narrative therapy, we are getting to know people _____ from their problems.
Separate. Learning about hobbies, values, everyday life aspects.
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.
externalizing
preferred pathway
Narrative Therapy focuses on the stories that clients bring to counseling and the process of reconstructing these stories to achieve _____.
preferred lives
In Narrative Therapy, the client shares his or her ______, which contains the problem-saturated story.
dominant discourse
Central Constructs of Narrative Therapy are:
1) Language
2) Stories
In the Central Constructs of Narrative Therapy are, what are the five different types of stories?
1) Problem-Saturated Story
2) Dominant/ Cultural Discourse
3) Alternative Discourse
4) Reauthoring Conversations
5) Externalizing the Problem
Unique Outcomes
______ plays a critical role in the way meaning is attached to the self and to one’s lived and future experiences.
Language
Reality is constructed and given meaning through ______
Language
What kind of language do you watch for in Narrative Therapy?
Shift from 1st & 2nd person
Life is a series of _____ that follow a “plot”
Stories
______ are created through interactions with others; no essential truths
Stories
What type of story is when the “problem” plays the leading role and the client plays the secondary role (generally that of the victim)?
Problem-Saturated Story
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 _____?
Dominant Discourse
This is an important part of the dominant discourse, based on culturally-based “truths” that influence our lives.
Cultural Discourse
This is an alternative to the dominant discourse or one that does not conform to the dominant plot.
Alternative Discourse
________ offer a set of “shoulds” and ethical “values” that are different from the dominant plot.
Alternative Discourses
It’s important the therapist can help the client understand Alternative Discourses so that they can successfully ______ with the dominant plot.
coexist
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.
Re-authoring Conversations
The process of Re-authoring Conversations can result in a _______ of the client’s identity.
thickening and enriching
_______ are not part of the dominant stories, they are the exceptions.
Unique outcomes
These are also called “Sparkling Events”.
Unique outcomes
_______ refers to stories or subplots in which the problem-saturated story does not play out in its typical way.
Unique outcomes
______ 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.
Unique outcomes
What are three interventions used in Narrative Therapy?
1) Deconstructive Questions
2) Landscape of Action Questions
3) Externalizing the Problem
Therapists ask _________ to better understand the client’s story and background.
deconstructive questions
__________ :
- 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.
deconstructive questions
Deconstructive Questions help facilitate discussion of the problem in terms of the following three things:
- History
- Contextual influence
- Effects and results
What are the events, circumstances, and stories that make up the client’s problem-saturated story?
Landscape of Action
What is the procedure to follow in a Landscape of Action?
1) Map in the landscape of action
2) Harness the power of unique outcomes
3) Thicken the plot
What is called when the therapist helps the client view the problem outside of him- or herself?
Externalizing the Problem
______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.
White & Epston (1990)
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).
ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status
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).
family dynamics & cultural practices
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).
egalitarian relationship
