Wave 5: Social Constructionist Flashcards
1
Q
What type of approach is social constructionist?
A
Post-modern
2
Q
What are the two approaches within the social constructionist approach?
A
Solution-focused therapy
narrative therapy
3
Q
Who developed the solution-focused therapy?
A
de shazer, inso berg, erikson
4
Q
Who developed the narrative therapy?
A
Michael White, David Epsom
5
Q
What is social constructionist focussed on?
A
- solution and change focussed
- collaborative - therapist and client as expert
- individual vs theory-driven
6
Q
How does solution focussed therapy view people?
A
- people are healthy, competent and have developed abilities (from exercising resilience) to construct solutions to enhance their lives
- individuals already have innate abilities to manage life’s challenges - sometimes we lose awareness/sense of direction/insight
7
Q
Where does solution-focused therapy believe problems arise from?
A
- no necessary relationship between cause of and solution to problem
- assessing problems is not necessary for change
8
Q
How does solution-focused therapy support change?
A
- taking the focus off of the problem
- eliciting competencies and external resources of the client
- focusing on the client’s preferred future
- inviting self-agency/action through developing concrete steps
9
Q
What are the solution-focused techniques?
A
- hosting (problem-free talk)
- pre-session change (what difference since appointment was made)
- goaling (what client wants to be different)
- exceptions (times when the problem had less influence)
- scaling questions
- Coping questions
- message/steps
10
Q
What does narrative therapy say about people?
A
- people are experts of their own lives and have their own meaning-making skills
- people are not problems and pathologising descriptions of people can collude problem stories
- there are lived experiences that exist outside the dominant stories people share about their lives which can be the source of new meaning
11
Q
How does the narrative approach support change?
A
- storytelling metaphor to assist in framing social constructionism
- Deconstructing Dominant Discourses
- focusses on the way stories are shared in sequence, over time, according to dominant plot, alternate discourses
- stories make values visible
12
Q
Where does narrative therapy believe problems arise from?
A
- view problems as separate entities to people, assumes that the individuals set of skills, experience and mindset will assist them to reduce the influence of problems throughout life
- people understand themselves and their relationship to the world is developed and shaped by their interactions in the world
13
Q
What are the narrative techniques?
A
- double listening (hearing dominant story plots/person’s problems while listening to sub-plots/values/hopes implicit in their narration)
- externalising (problem and ideas spoken about separately to the person)
- scaffolding (sequencing questions so that person makes the first meaning of the dominant story)
- re-authoring (linking subplots together to co-author an alternative narrative)
- re-telling (offer summaries of dominant story for the person to build on it)
