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Therapist Roles
Theoretical Concepts
Interventions
The Therapeutic Relationship
People
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This therapeutic approach is a mutual, participatory process of conversation.
What is Collaborative Therapy?
100
The therapist is a participant in the problem, co-creating with the client both the definitions of the problem and it's resolution through dialogue.
What is Problem Formation?
100
There are no direct intervention methods, the therapist facilitates a dialogue?
What is a Conversational Process?
100
A conversational partnership is a process of being with the client, no matter how uncomfortable or unpredictable it may be.
What is Conversational Partners?
100
This woman is an American psychologist. Along with Dr. Harold A. Goolishian, she developed a postmodern collaborative approach to therapy.
Who is Harlene Anderson?
200
Both the client and the therapist equally participate in the creation of the diagnosis and cure.
What is Therapeutic Reality?
200
People get stuck in problems when they don't understand how to interact with people in a different way. The therapist actively listens and facilitates a conversation with the client so the client can learn new ways to interact with others, and solve their problem.
What is Problem Maintenance?
200
The therapist doesn't judge or understand too quickly (if ever).
What is a Respectful Listener?
200
Withness.
What is Conversational Partners?
200
This man is a pioneer family psychologist and dean of the social constructionist movement in family therapy. In the 1950s he played a central role in developing Multiple Impact Therapy, one of the earliest federally funded projects in family therapy. Goolishian was co-founder of the Houston-Galveston Institute, which became known in the 1980s for the Collaborative Language Systems Approach.
Who is Harold A. Goolishian?
300
The therapist respects clients decisions to solve dilemmas through the session.
What is Self-Efficient?
300
Problems are resolved through conversation when clients begin to talk about their problem different and form new belief systems.
What is Problem Resolution?
300
Responding to an answer with a question.
What is Asking Questions?
300
A therapist's sincere interest in the clients' unique life experiences and meanings in the person he/she is engaged with.
What is Curiosity?
300
This man is a training coordinator at the Family Institute of Cambridge. He has spent most of the last 20 years working in public sector mental health with "high risk," multi-stressed families.
Who is William Madsen?
400
In the therapy process neither the client or the helper is superior to one another.
What is Non-hierarchical?
400
Collaborative therapists work from a social constructionist, postmodern perspective, which maintains that our realities are constructed in language and through relationships.
What is a Postmodern Approach?
400
The therapist creates a space/time that allows for mutual collaboration in defining and dissolving the problem.
What is a Conversational Context?
400
The client is the expert in content. The therapist is the expert in the conversational process.
What is Client and Therapist Expertise?
500
A process of question after questions in which the therapist and client are joined in a search for this?
What is a Understanding?
500
The art of not knowing.
What is Curiosity?
500
The therapist chooses cooperative vs. uncooperative language. It's important to learn, understand, and converse in the client's language.
What is Cooperative language?
500
Three conversations are simultaneously occuring. 1)the therapist inner dialogue, 2) the client's inner dialogue, 3) and the outer spoken dialogue. The therapist allows time and time for all of these to be discussed.
What is Inner and Outer Talk?