Founders
Founder of Narrative Therapy and decade
Michael White and David Epston, 1980s
The therapist's approach to getting to know the client. Blank slate. Avoid assumptions because even when clients appear to have similar experiences, they all have unique understandings of the situation. Maintain a stance of curiosity.
Not-Knowing Stance.
(TOMM) used to help familes find new ways of communication. The frame of question leads to new meaning/answers
inventive questioning
Change occurs by separating patient from problem and creating a new narrative or STORY, which EMPHASIZES the client’s competencies and STRENGHTS
Theory of Change
A limited and oppressive narrative in a person’s life. The Thp will help deconstruct these stories to find exceptions during the process of locating the prefferred/alternate story
When clients identify with a narrative that emphasizes a metaphoric problem throughout time, thereby influencing their perception of the past as well as their experience of the present and future. These are traditionally externally influenced and repress the subjugated story more congruent with the authentic reality of the individual.
Problem Saturated Stories
Founder of Collaborative Therapy
Harlene Anderson
Members draw support from each other in order to defeat the problem
Support Leagues.
(ANDERSON) a team of collaborative therapists observe a family be
Reflecting Team
Collaborator
Investigator
Co-author
Views individuals as the experts on their own lives
NO FAMILY OF ORIGIN
Therapist’s Role
The alternate more positive narrative the client wishes to have. This story is co constructed with the Thp to define what the Clt would like the dominant story to be at the end.
Preferred Narrative
Highly influenced by French politics
Narrative Therapy
A learning paradigm studied and practiced in a laboratory or other controlled environment in which a stimulus called the unconditioned stimulus (US) which naturally elicits an unconditioned response (UCR), is paired with a neutral stimulus that does not initially elicit a response. Through the repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus (now the conditioned stimulus - CS) begins to elicit the desired response (now the conditioned response - CR).
Classical Conditioning:
language is at the foundation of this approach, they will adapt to the style of the client as a means of joining
Language
Document and support new STORY
Write letter to self and others
Phases of Treatment End
Questions used to explore meaning by taking apart and examining taken-for-granted categories and assumptions which makes possible newer constructions of meaning
Deconstruction Questions
What Modality was influence by research to learn why therapy worked for some but not others. The founder(s) cared deeply about what makes clients feel hopeful.
Collaborative therapy.
Times when the problem did not push the client into acting against a preferred way of being and in which the client relied on previously hidden resources or strengths.
Hint: Narrative Therapy
Unique Outcomes
problems arise and maintain themselves based upon the nature in which individuals continue to communicate about them.
problem-determining system
Process of eliciting from the client a detailed description of the problem’s effect and influence on their life and relationships
What is its impact on their life
Interventions: Mapping the Influence
A technique that helps clients personify the and separate the problem from self
Externalizing the Problem
Which founder(s) believed knowledge is a social construct?
Harlene Anderson
Times when the problem is not the problem.
Exceptions
Which of these founders don't belong?
Harry GOOLISHAN
Harlene ANDERSON
Karl TOMM
Tom ANDERSON
Marry GOOLISHAN
Marry GOOLISHAN
Questions that CLARIFY meaning and help people unpack their stories
Encourage client to situate their narratives in BROADER CONTEXTS
*What does it mean to you?
Interventions: Deconstructive Questions
Questions used to gather information about times in the client’s life the person was able to RESIST the externalized problem and its effect on their life. This lead to unique outcomes or sparkling events
What ACTION did you take to resist this Depression last year?
Landscape of Action Questions