Post - Modernism Flashcards
In solution-focused therapy, when is termination?
when the problem has been solved.
The idea that “Change is Constant” is a part of which family therapy?
Solution Focused Therapist views change as always occurring. The family; however, is not noticing shifts and change.
Challenging the Symptom comes from which family therapy model?
What strategy does it refer to?
Structural:
***Offers the family alternative ways of viewing the problem related to the family’s structure.
Which therapy introduced this concept:
attending to the language and meaning used by clients, therapists understand the lived reality of their clients and how they experience the meaning of situations relationships, others, and self.
social - constructivism in Solution-Focused Therapy
Joining and Accommodating is a early stage intervention used in
Structural therapy (Classical)
The family’s response to the Miracle Question provides information to the therapist with regard to what aspects of treatment planning?
The Miracle Question occurs in the first session of Solution-Focused Therapy.
The way that the family answers the question provides information to be used in
1) assessment
2) goal setting
3) interventions
If an unplanned enactment occurs during a session, it is referred to as__________.
Which theorist coined this name?
Spontaneous Behavioral Sequence
Minuchin
This statement: “The therapist does not have to understand the problem to solve it.” Comes from which Family Therapy? What does it mean?
Solution-Focused Therapy
It means that the solution is not obviously related to the problem. The therapist does not need to understand the problem to find the solution.
Which therapy includes maintaining a focus on the client family’s strengths and resources?
Solution-Focused therapy
Milan Systemic Therapy has a concept referred to as Time. What is this concept and what does it contribute to that therapy?
This is the realization that a family’s historic understanding of a problem, affects their current perspective of the problem. The historical perspective (Dad was a monster) causes them to selectively remember only the times that dad was not a monster.
Volini (2020) p. 351
The concept of “Working Through” is a product of which theory in which school? What does it mean?
Working Through comes from Object - Relations. Working through is the idea that the therapist will support the client in identifying the implications of the insight the client gained. What will that mean for future behavior/thoughts?
Narrative Family Therapy focuses on__________________________________.
These people are credited with its development:
the subjective, lived reality of each individual. Reality as socially constructed.
Michael White (Autralian) influenced by
a) Michael Foucault
b) David Epston (New Zealand)
White had this construct about the therapy experience:
Therapy is an environment where people can reflect on the narratives they have constructed about themselves. People have the opportunity to identify their life experiences and the influence of those experiences creating new narratives congruent to the ways that they want to begin living.
Volini (2020) p. 191
Narrative Therapy has a power dynamic that places clients as
The experts of their own lives.
Narrative Therapy has a set of interventions which work together to
free people from the oppression of their problem-saturated stories about themselves. The stories begin to form a theme and contradictory experiences are ignored / devalued.
Narrative therapy appreciates the multiple contexts in which the clients live. These contexts include;
social
political
Clients as Consultants:
What is this?
What therapy model does it belong to?
a) bringing discharged clients back to serve as consultants on current cases. (reinforce growth and increase collaborative stance)
b) Narrative
Collaborative Case notes
Narrative
The therapist may write case notes collaboratively with the client at the end of sessions.
Co-therapist
Symbolic - Experiential (Whitaker)
