Solution-Focused Therapy
SFT is primarily concerned about *this* one of the following: the client's past, present, or future.
What is the future?
Narrative therapy seeks to help clients understand their problems through *these.*
What are stories?
In addition to work in the therapy room, the feminist therapist also encourages the client to do *this* kind of work in the outside world.
What is social justice/social advocacy/social change?
In SFT, the therapist encourages the client to take ownership of *these* three things (but you only have to name ONE of them).
What are goals, expectations, and/or outcomes?
The postmodern approaches suggest that the experience of reality is not the same for everyone, and is heavily based on *this* for the client.
What is the client's perspective?
In SFT, the therapist will encourage the client not to focus on the problem, but to focus on *these* times when the problem doesn't occur..
What are exceptions to the problem?
This is the way that the Narrative therapist encourages the client to see the stories about their problems.
What is "socially constructed?"
In feminist therapy, treatment is intended to be *this,* meaning that women's/men's behaviors are viewed as socialized, rather than innate.
What is "gender fair" therapy?
In SFT, this is the stance that the therapist takes, believing that the best solutions will come from the client.
What is the "not knowing" stance?
(Or client as expert)
The Postmodern perspective suggests that, rather than being an objective pheomena, "reality" is actually *this.*
What is subjective and/or socially constructed?
In SFT, this technique involves the therapist asking the client to imagine waking up and the problem is solved.
What is the miracle question?
In Narrative therapy, this is the name given to the client's presenting problem early in the therapy process.
What is the Old Story/Current Story?
In feminist therapy, this intervention helps the client to learn to recognize her own needs and strongly advocate for herself.
What is assertiveness training?
This is the type of therapy relationship emphasized in feminist therapy.
What is the egalitarian partnership?
This time period saw the rise of "second wave" feminism, and the beginnings of feminist therapy.
What are the 1960s?
In SFT, this technique involves the therapist asking the client to rate their level of distress, and monitor its changes over time.
What are scaling questions?
In narrative therapy, this is the preferred story that the client wants to work toward is called.
What is the New Story?
In feminist therapy, this intervention helps clients to see how their own gender role socialization has contributed to their values, thoughts, and behaviors.
What is gender role/social identity analysis?
A feminist therapist is more likely to share *this* kind of information, very different from traditional therapy approaches.
What is self-disclosure?
This feminist theory principle suggests that all mental problems stem from a sociopolitical context.
What are critical consciousness and "personal is political?"
In SFT, this "stage of change" is what happens with the client has specific plans to make a change, but hasn't actually made the changes yet.
What is "preparation?"
In narrative therapy *this* is more important than the client's problem itself.
What is 'what the client tells themself about the problem?'
This feminist intervention is designed to help shift the client's point of view to see the problem as social/political rather than internal/personal.
What is reframing/relabeling?
One of the major therapist roles in Narrative therapy is to help the client do *this* with the problem, and help them see how it is socially constructed.
What is "externalize" the problem?
According to feminist theorists like Carol Gilligan, being raised with gender role stereotypes in a sexist culture can lead to *this.*
What is "internalized oppression?"