Key Figures
Therapeutic Techniques
Key Concepts
Chance??
100
The founder of narrative therapy.
Who is michael White?
100
Narrative therapists ask their clients to tell stories in this point of view to separate the client from the problem.
What is external?
100
Exploring meaning by examination taken-for-granted categories and assumptions, making possible newer and more sound constructions.
What is deconstruction?
100
This is one of four basic assumptions about people?
What is have good intentions, profoundly influenced by the discourse around them, are not their problems, and can develop alternative stories?
200
This key figure introduced Michael White to the Narrative Metaphor and convinced him it was more useful then cybernetics.
Who is David Epston?
200
This is a process where the client and therapist write new narratives based off past successes.
What is reauthoring?
200
The usual pessimistic accounts clients bring to therapy, which may help keep them stuck.
What is Problem-saturated stories?
200
This is the main therapeutic technique in Narrative Therapy.
What is asking questions?
300
Jill Freedman and Gene Combs direct the Family Therapy Center in this Illinois City.
Where is Evanston?
300
A group of people with similar problems who encourage and reinforce the clients new narrative.
What is a league?
300
The creation of new and more optimistic accounts of experience?
What is reconstruction?
300
These are times when the client was free of their problem.
What is unique outcomes or "sparkling events"?
400
This key figure founded the Vancouver Anti Anorexia and Bulimia League and implements Narrative Therapy with Children.
Who is Stephan Madigan?
400
An approach where the therapist outlines the clients new story and the therapists confidence in the client.
What is Letter Writing?
400
Analysis of literary texts or human experience, understood as fundamentally ambiguous, by interpreting levels of meaning.
What is hermeneutics?
400
The therapist Michael White was influenced by.
Who is Gregory Bateson?
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