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TRUE OR FALSE
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Role Play #1 Narrative therapy works by helping clients deconstruct unproductive stories in order to reconstruct new and more productive ones. Deconstruction refers to: a) Questioning assumptions b) interpretations c) aversive control
a) Questioning assumptions
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Narrative Therapists encourage clients to ask questions they might have about the therapist. Yes or no.
What is YES.
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The founder of Narrative Therapy lived in Adelaide Australia, and he worked as a draftsman before working with people. What is the name of the founder of Narrative Therapy?
Who is Michael White
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An approach to treatment that emphasizes the role of the stories people construct about their experience
What is Narrative Therapy?
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*DAILY DOUBLE* Narrative therapy is AWESOME!
What is TRUE The narrative approach has been proven effective with highly complex issues, such as in anorexia, sensitivity in gifted children, tricky reading for those with dyslexia, anxiety, fears, and depression.
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Role play #2 By using externalizing language, the therapists separates the client from the problem, making its destructive effects apparent and also establishing a sense of trust with the client. What is this called? a) Externalizing conversations b) triangulation c) Relative influence
What are a) externalizing conversations
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Note-taking is a key point in Narrative therapy, where the therapist will often take notes as each person talks. Yes or no.
What is...Yes
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This person worked closely with Michael White to develop Narrative Therapy. Michael White and this person worked out of the Dulwich Center where the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work Quarterly is published.
Who is Cheryl White
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Narrative Theory ascribes to this theory/model that views absolute truths with skepticism and believes the world cannot be treated as an objective system
What is social constructionism?
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Little Mason's parents describe him as "very angry and easily agitated," and indicated that Mason experiences frequent temper tantrums and angry outbursts. Dr. Hugs-A-Lot asks Little Mason to describe what happens when the "Anger Monster" tries to take over. This is an example of externalizing the problem.
What is TRUE Externalizing the problem separates the person from the dysfunctional system of behaving, thinking, perceiving, etc...
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Over many sessions, therapists ask a multitude of questions that explore how the problem has managed to disrupt or dominate the family versus how much they have been able to control it. Through the questions, it is clear the problem has succeeded in disturbing their relationships with each other. What are these types of questions called? a) Hat family questions b) Questions c) Relative influence questions c) Deconstructing questions
What are c) relative influence questions
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In Narrative therapy, the therapist encourages problem talk or problem-saturated stories? What is the main difference between the two?
What is Problem-Saturated stories. Problem talk focuses on asking how the client's life will be different once the problem is fixed, Problem-saturated stories focus first on externalizing the client's problem and then focus on where the problem has been less powerful in the client's life.
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Michael White worked with this person who was interested in how people construe the world and behavioral patterns of systems-based models. This person was influential to White in developing his theory. Who was this person?
Who is Gregory Bateson
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"Sparkling events" or times when clients acted free of their problems or behaved in ways that contradicted the problem story, even if they were unaware of doing so
What are "unique outcomes"?
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Focus of this approach is the way in which people behave rather than the manner in which people construct meaning.
What is FALSE The opposite is true. Narrative therapy focuses on the manner in which people construct meaning rather than they way they behave.
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Role play #4 To make the connection of client competence relative to the problem, the therapist asks about what the series of past and present victories over the problem says about the client. What is this called? a. Retelling b: restorying c. reauthoring d. rereading
What is c) reauthoring
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When focusing on a problem, narrative therapists focus on the cause of the problem rather than its effects. Why or why not?
What is....Focusing on the problem's effects. The therapist asks about the problem's effects rather than its causes because causative questions usually lead to attribution of blame.
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This Narrative Therapist is the second most influential leader for Narrative Therapy. He is famous for writing Biting the Hand that Starves You, helping people with Anti-Anorexia and Anti-Bulimia.
Who is David Epston
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Narrative approach was first based in this type of art, which analyzes literary texts or human experience, understood as fundamentally ambiguous, by interpreting levels of meaning
What is hermeneutics?
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This approach offers that often by the time a person has come to therapy, the stories they have for themselves and their lives have more often than not become completely dominated by problems.
What is TRUE These narratives have been referred to as "problem-saturated" stories, which may have a powerful negative influence in the way people see their lives and capabilities
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Narrative therapists believe that the self is constituted in social interactions, and narrative therapists make a point of helping clients find audiences to support their progress in constructing new stories for themselves. What are the ways a narrative therapist can assist a client in doing this?: a) Contacting people from their past who can authenticate their new story b) Letter writing as a way to extend the therapeutic conversations c) Forming teams and leagues to emphasize interaction in creating and maintaining change d) All of the above
d) all of the above
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An example of a way a Narrative therapist might use "externalizing of a problem" in family therapy and one reason why externalizing a problem is beneficial.
What is...Example could be anything similar to..."How has (insert problem/symptom) affect you? Beneficial because it can reduce self-blame (or anything similar to this)
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_______ and Vicki Dickerson are the cofounders of Bay Area Family Therapy Training Associates. They are known for working with difficult adolescents and couples. They also wrote the book If Problems Talked: Narrative Therapy in Action.
Who is Jeffrey Zimmerman
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1. Move problem stories toward externalized descriptions of problems 2. Map the effects of a problem 3. Listen to signs of strength and competence in an individual's problem-saturated stories 4. Build a new story of competence and recruit support
What are the stages/steps of Narrative Therapy conversations/strategies?
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Co-construction involves the therapist working to develop a different view of the problem for the clients. As the therapist develops new meanings and new ways of resolving problems, s/he looks to the client to clarify the appropriateness of these new found perspectives and behaviors.
What is FALSE Co-construction is a COLLABORATIVE effort, where the development of new perspectives and effective problem solving strategies are explored together by the therapist and client.