Lay of the Land
Grounded in social constructionist theories that examine how societal discourses about gender, culture, race, religion, and economic status affect a person's sense of person hood and the development of problems.
What are postmodern counseling approaches?
One of the few theories that integrates these types of issues, similar to feminist approaches.
What are societal and cultural issues?
Getting to know people separate from their problems by learning about their hobbies, values, and everyday aspects of their lives.
What is the first phase of the narrative counseling process, meeting the person.
A process of being with the client, respecting the client's knowledge and expertise, and responding in a collaborative and dialogical mode.
What is a conversational partnership?
The signature technique of narrative counseling.
What is externalizing: separating the problem from the person?
Focus on facilitating dialogical conversations that "dissolve" problems with conversations and relationships that allow for the co-creation of new meaning related to problems.
What are collaborative approaches?
These two individuals developed the collaborative approach at the University of Texas.
Who are Harlene Anderson and Harry Goolishian?
This type of counseling does not have set stages or an outline for how to conduct a session.
What is collaborative counseling?
This is the motto of what type of therapy: "The problem is the problem. The person is not the problem."
What is narrative?
The questions that come naturally from within the dialogue rather than from professional theory.
What are conversational questions?
These theories place and emphasis on interpersonal relationships and how they shape a person's understanding and experiences of self.
What are narrative and collaborative approaches?
These occur in our head, our closer relationships, and marginalized (not mainstream) communities.
What are local discourses?
According to this type of therapy, when people begin to experience problems they tend to notice only those that fit with the problem narrative.
What is narrative?
A hallmark of the collaborative counseling stance, referring to the counselors sincere interest in the client's unique life experiences.
What is curiosity?
This map includes four categories of inquiry that are used multiple times throughout a session to shift the client's relationship with the problem and open new possibilities for action.
What is the statement of position map?
Separate people from their problems by exploring the sociocultural influences and language habits that maintain problems.
What is narrative counseling?
A Norwegian psychiatrist who originally studied with the Milan team, who then transformed the systemic practice using postmodern tools.
who is Tom Andersen?
Created from monological conversations.
What is a therapeutic impasse?
When a client is talking, narrative counselors listen for this particular type of story.
What is a problem saturated story?
When counselors share their inner dialogue for two potential reasons: a) to respect clients by honestly sharing their thoughts or b) to prevent monological conversation.
What is being public?
The primary philosophical foundations of narrative counseling.
What is Foucault's philosophical writings, critical theory, and social constructionism?
Culturally generated stories about how life should go that are used to coordinate social behavior, such as how married people should act, what happiness looks like, and how to be successful.
What are dominant discourses?
The fifth stage of the narrative counseling profess, where the counselor and client work to strengthen preferred stories and identities by having them witnessed by significant others in a person's life.
What is solidifying?
The thoughts and conversations that each person has within while participating in a conversation.
What is inner talk?
Narrative counselors avoid this type of thinking.
What is totalizing and dualistic thinking?