Narrative Therapy With Families

Question 1

Deconstruction

Answer 1

“Discovering, acknowledging and ‘taking apart’ the beliefs, ideas and practices of the broader culture in which a person lives that are serving to assist the problem and the problem story”

Question 2

Discourse

Answer 2

A system of statements, practices, and institutional structures that share common values.

Question 3

Externalize

Answer 3

The process of developing a dialogue with a client about a problem as if the problem was external from the client (i.e. Bon’Kwee’Kwee/unhealed Amy).

Question 4

Postmodernism

Answer 4

The view that there is no one objective “truth” and that there are many multiple possible interpretations of any event.

Question 5

Reauthoring

Answer 5

The process in narrative therapy wherein the client and the therapist begin rewriting the client’s story into an alternative story.

Question 6

Social Constructionist

Answer 6

A theoretical standpoint that takes the view that there is no objective reality. Our reality is constructed within social groups in the context of shared language, culture, history, and relationships.

Question 7

Unique Outcomes

Answer 7

Events that a person partakes in that shine or stand out in contrast to times when the person subjected himself or herself or others to the dominant, problem-focused story.