Narrative
This style of therapy holds that the stories we tell about ourselves and how we interact with the world are not just stories about us, they are our lives
Narrative Therapy
A technique meant to help an individual or family seperate the presenting problem from themselves so they do not see themselves as being the problem
Externalizations
This brief therapy approach is primarily concerned with how clients can create change rather than understanding why the problem exists. What is this therapy?
Solution-focused brief therapy
The approach that views the therapist and client as collaborative partners, emphasizes dialogue and curiosity, and challenges the idea that the therapist is the sole expert in understanding the client's experiences?
Collaborative approach
This is made up of the core narrative self, life predictions and expectations, life events and actors, and opportunities for meaning making and growth
The Four Clusters of the Life Narrative
Moments described by the client that do not show the problem defeating them or having an overarching influence. these moments are used to show clients that alternative storylines do exist
Unique Outcomes
The two concepts that Franklin and colleagues found that support two key SFBT processes that collaboratively create meaning and focuses on clients' strengths and resources
Co-construction of meaning and strength-oriented techniques
When thinking about social constructionist therapies, what are the main limitations to these approaches?
Overlook of biological, historical, cultural and systemic factors
Strengths of NT
Person-Centered
No labeling
Externalizes the problem
Clients are the experts
two ways to describe a person or families life; one using simple and surface-level terms that reduce the problem to a label, and the other using deep, detailed, multilayered context clues to create a comprehensive understanding
Thin and Thick Descriptions
A technique where a client shares their story to a supportive audience, and then has their story repeated back to them. The telling and retelling helps to affirm the preferred narrative of the client and also thicken the description of the narrative as they both speak it and hear it back in the voice of a trusted peer
Definitional Ceremony
The approach that views the client as the experts on their own lives and uses their experiences, responses, and strengths as primary data for developing workable solutions and new possibilities
Solution-orientated possibility therapy
An intervention that asks clients to rate their progress towards a goal and identify how they can move it up a point?
Scaling Question
Weaknesses of NT
No typical structured approach
Time Consuming
Requires skill in language and interpretation
The leading figure in narrative therapy's rise who believed in freeing people from problem-oriented stories often pushed on them by societal and cultural norms
Michael White
Notes given to the client by the therepist to build upon what happens in the session, and also providing them a resource that can be kept forever while maintaining value
Therapeutic Letters
An intervention that can help family members identify when a problem was less severe or gone and explore what was done differently during those times?
Exception Questions
What is utilized to accommodate diversity by allowing clients and families to define their own goals, strengths, and solutions based on their unique experiences and circumstances?
Adaptability
This animated film was used as a creative Solution Focused therapy tool along with other concepts to help families explore strengths, connection, and strategies to emit change?
Spider-Man: into the Spider-Verse
The philisophical root systems out of which narrative therapy comes. They explore how presenting problems do not always have underlying fixed causes and how people's stories can have many interpretations
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
Groups that form based on similar experiences and issues. They may meet in person, write to each other, or communicate in other ways, but the objective is to use mutual support to overcome obstacles
Supportive Leagues
One of the pioneers of solution focused therapy's research that challenged traditional problem-focused therapy by emphasizing what clients were already doing that worked and small changes leading to meaningful solutions
Steve de Shazar
Besides traditional family and couples therapy, the principles of SFBT can also be applied to these areas
Individual and group therapy