True or False - Narrative therapists depend greatly on categorizing and interpreting people, true or false?
False!
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A postmodern approach to exploring meaning by taking apart and examining taken-for-granted categories and assumptions, making possible newer and sounder constructions of meaning.
Deconstruction
100
What does a narrative assessment begin with?
Getting the family's story.
200
Who is the founder of Narrative Therapy?
Michael White
200
Reweaving narrative accounts into more palatable and coherent histories.
According to Narrative Therapists, what is the cause of behavior disorders?
When people construe their experience in unhelpful ways.
300
Sometimes referred to as "tunnel vision," The usual pessimistic and blaming accounts that clients bring to therapy, which are seen as helping keep them stuck.
Problem-saturated stories
300
Narrative therapy most commonly takes what form?
The form of questions
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What is the goal of a "meaning question"?
To challenge negative images of self and emphasize positive agency.
400
Term for times when clients acted free of their problems, even if they were unaware of doing so. Narrative therapists identify unique outcomes as a way to help clients challenge negative views of themselves.
Unique Outcomes
400
What is the role of reinforcing the new story in Narrative Therapy?
To help clients find audiences to support their progress in constucting new stories for themselves.
500
The narrative approach is built around two organizing metaphors. What are they?
1) Personal Narrative
2) Social Construction
500
Questions designed to explore the extent to which the problem has dominated the client versus how much he or she has been able to control it.
Relative influence questions
500
What are the 3 stages of narrative therapy?
1) Externalizing the problem
2) finding exceptions
3) recruiting support