Social Constructionism
In Social Constructionism, clients are viewed as this regarding their own lives.
What is an expert?
SFBT downplays this timeframe, choosing instead to emphasize the present and the future.
What is the past?
This type of question asks clients to evaluate their symptoms, like anxiety, on a numerical baseline from 0 to 10.
What is a scaling question?
Motivational Interviewing is a humanistic, client-centered approach that blends person-centered therapy with this brief method.
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)?
Narrative therapists operate under the core mantra that the person is not the problem, but rather this is the problem.
What is the problem?
These individuals believe that reality exists independently of any attempt to observe it.
Who are modernists?
SFBT shares many parallel philosophies with this optimistic branch of psychology.
What is positive psychology?
This centerpiece intervention asks a client to imagine how their life would change overnight if their problem was completely solved while they slept.
What is the miracle question?
This term describes the bedrock attitude of MI therapists as they apply their clinical skills.
What is the MI spirit?
This is the process of separating a person's core identity from the problem they are experiencing.
What is externalization?
Social constructionist therapy values this aspect of the client without disputing whether it is accurate or rational.
What is the client's reality?
Instead of dwelling on deficits or weaknesses, SFBT concentrates on what is right and what is doing this.
What is working?
This question asks, "What have you done since you made the appointment that has made a difference in your problem?"
What is a pre-therapy change question?
Rather than a roadblock, this reluctance from the client is viewed as a completely expected part of the therapeutic process.
What is resistance? (or reluctance to change)
Narrative therapists adopt this specific relational stance, which allows them to be completely guided by the client's story.
What is a "not-knowing" position?
These are the two most significant psychotherapeutic approaches influenced by postmodernist thought.
What are Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and Narrative Therapy?
Therapists help clients look for these past instances of success or times when a problem was less intrusive.
What are exceptions?
This specific homework intervention is given between the first and second sessions to offer hope that change is inevitable.
What is the formula first session task?
MI is explicitly designed to evoke and explore both client discrepancies and this state of torn or mixed feelings.
What is ambivalence?
Before alternative preferred life stories can be co-created, these problem-saturated narratives must first undergo this process.
What is deconstruction?
According to this approach, people get stuck in a dialogic system that features its own unique language, meaning, and process.
What is the Collaborative Language Systems Approach?
This type of therapeutic relationship is defined as one where the client and therapist jointly identify both a problem and a solution.
What is a customer-type relationship?
This type of client relationship describes someone who comes to therapy solely because a third party thinks they have a problem.
What is a visitor?
This is one of the four common grounds shared by MI and SFBT regarding how clinical skills improve.
What is deliberate practice?
In school group therapy settings, narrative techniques are commonly used to assist students with grief, anger management, getting back on track with schoolwork, or this style of program.
What is an adventure-based program?