CONSTRUCTIVIST
Change requires inner motivation rather than ___________ or external sources. It is necessary for individuals to challenge their patterned cognitions in order to allow for change to occur.
What is Environmental
According to Narrative Therapy our identities are shape by:
What is the stories we tell ourselves.
I Developed Structural Therapy
Who is Salvador Minuchin
Critism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling.
What are the Four Horsemen?
Therapist is responsible for outcome, directs & becomes part of the system.
What is the Role of the Therapist?
All of the following are goals of Constructivist Theory, EXCEPT:
a. Develop coping skills and problem-solving skills.
b. Gain insight and an understanding of oneself and others.
c. Develop a life direction that the individual finds meaningful.
d. Gain insight of the problems of oneself.
What is b. Gain insight and an understanding of oneself and other
They are the founders of Narrative Therapy
Who are David Epstien and Michael White
Many family problems arise as a result of ____ and___ within the family system.
What is maladaptive boundaries and subsystems
It is an attack on the partner at the core of their character. In effect, they are dismantling their partners whole being
What is Criticism
Relabeling of family behaviors in a positive light.
What is Positive Connotations?
These two therapies evolved from Constructivist Theory
What is Solution Focused and Narrative Therapy?
Problems are viewed as __________ entities from the client and change occurs by creating a new narrative or story which emphasizes the client’s competencies and strengths.
What is separate
Alignments where two or more family members join together to form a bond against another family member.
What are Coalitions.
When we feel unjustly accused, we fish for excuses and play the innocent victim so that our partner will back off.
What is Defensiveness?
Changes in the system rules that affect a behavior change.
What is Second Order Change?
Which of the following is not a intervention used in
Constructivist Theory?
a. Basic Centering Techniques
b. Story Telling
c. Problem Solving Skills
d. Pattern Work
What is b. Story Telling
The Therapist does this with the client in order to develop richer narratives based on the idea that the client is the expert of their own life
What is collaborate
Redefines the problem as a system’s issue.
What is Reframe
This occurs when the listener withdraws from the interaction, shuts down, and simply stops responding to their partner.
What is Stonewalling?
Information pathways that help the system balance and correct itself. Can be negative (maintains the current bias and level of functioning) or positive (changes the bias/level of functioning). For example, a problem behavior from a child may elicit a response from a parent that continues the problem or worsens it.
What is Feedback Loops?
What are the Four COP’s in Constructivist Theory
Reality, Value, Self, Power
In Narrative Therapy a question like this “What is your anxiety trying to tell you to do?” is what type of Question.
What is a Deconstruction Question
A diagram used to identify boundaries, structures, and relationships within the family system.
What is a Family Map.
When partners communicate in this state, they are truly mean—they treat others with disrespect, mock them with sarcasm, ridicule, call them names, and mimic or use body language such as eye-rolling or scoffing.
What is Contempt.
Strategic Therapy believes that this results from alterations in the family system, which is seen as maintaining the presenting problem; the system is changed as the therapist provides directives that alter patterns of communication between family members.
What is Change