Misc
This is a humanistic, client-centered, psychosocial, and modestly directive counseling approach developed by Miller and Rollnick in the early 1980's.
What is motivational interviewing?
This approach focuses on what is right and what is working for people rather than dwelling on deficits, weaknesses, and problems.
What is positive psychology?
The concept that is at the heart of feminist theory.
What is empowerment?
This approach includes a shift from placing the problem internally and "blaming the victim" to a consideration of social factors in the environment that contribute to a client's problem.
What is reframing?
A strengths based approach that emphasizes collaboration between client and therapist to help clients view themselves as empowered and living the way they want.
What is narrative therapy?
Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer were most commonly known for this post-modern modality.
What is solution-focused brief therapy?
A practice of self-examination regarding how one relies on Euro-centric knowledge and unconsciously support patriarchal systems.
What is reflexivity?
What are scaling questions?
This is a post-modern approach intervention/assignment that tends to increase clients' hope and optimism about their present and future situation.
What is the formula first session task?
A process in which therapists begin to separate the person from the problem in their mind as they listen and respond.
What is double listening?
Feminist theory moves toward exploring the impact of social, political, and cultural forces that damage, oppress, and constrain the individual and away from this.
What is intrapsychic perspective on psychopathology?
A practice in which a therapist examines their own multiple and intersecting social identities and positions of power and privilege.
What is positionality?
This goes beyond sharing information and experiences, involves the quality and the presence provided by the therapist, and is grounded in authenticity and a sense of mutuality.
What is self disclosure?
Ambivalence reflects an internal struggle and is intrapersonal, whereas resistance is between people and is interpersonal in nature. Resistance would be referred to as this in motivational interviewing.
What is discord?
The process of disassembling the taken-for-granted assumptions that are made about an event, which then opens alternative possibilities for living.
What is deconstruction?
This view assumes that human development is a lifelong process and that personality and behavioral changes can occur at any time rather than being fixed during childhood.
What is a life-span perspective?
In the post-modern approach, clients are less encouraged to focus on problem-talk and more encouraged to focus on this.
What is Change-talk (or Solution talk)?
A framework that assists clients in identifying the impact socialization based on their identity has played in shaping their values, thoughts, and behaviors.
What is social identity analysis?
This model posits that people progress through a series of five identifiable stages in the counseling process, including pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
What is stages of change?
A two stage process marked by first mapping the influence of a problem in a person's life, and then mapping the influence of the person's life back on the problem.
What are externalizing conversations?
This theory posits that realities do not exist independently of observational process and the language systems within which they are described.
What is postmodernism?
This is Kaschak's belief that gender is the organizing principle in people's lives.
What is engendered lives?
This technique encourages clients to dream as a way of identifying the kinds of changes they most want to see, shifting the emphasis from both the past and current problems to a more satisfying life in the future.
What is the miracle question?
To increase self esteem and foster a sense of personal power, a feminist therapist may encourage a client to do this when they are ready.
What is social action?
Scarcely recognized moments in one's life in which the dominant story does not dominate.
What are unique outcomes?