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