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Constructivist Theory Approaches
understanding problems from client's POV,Solution-focused and Narrative therapy
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Psychology
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07/07/2012

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In Constructivist approaches,theories can get in the way of understanding a client... T or F?
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Therapists can learn about a client by understanding her story from her POV...t or f?
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Theory does not help clients move toward solving their problems...t or f
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approaching client's problems as short stories or novels can be helpful
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Solutions to problems should be the therapist's focus, not the underlying reason for problem...t or f?
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Complimenting the client is useful therapeutic technique...t or f?
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It is useful to know what changes have taken place in solving a specific problem prior to therapy..t or f?
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Finding exceptions to when the problem presents itself can be helpful in therapy... t or f?
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Organizing goals and solutions to problems by using a diagram can be helpful...t or f?
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A few sessions may be enough for many clients... t or f?
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Individuals have ways they see or construct the world, t or f?
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Aclient's view of the world ismore important than the therapist's theory of psychotherapy, t or f?
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In therapy, subjective perceptions that the clients have are more important than an objective diagnostic system like the DXM-iii-TR. t or f?
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Blaming the problem rather than looking at the client['s difficulty with the problem is a useful technique. t or f?
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T
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Individuals have ways they see or construct the world, t or f?
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T
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Examining what could happen in the client's future can facilitate positive change,t or f?
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Sharing the successful experiences of former clients in dealing with similar problems is helpful... t or f?
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Examining those aspects of a client's life that are going well can help the client with her problem. t or f?
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Epictetus
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Greek philosopher: people are disturbed by their own views of reality
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Immanual Kant
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1700's/ human mind transforms and coordinates data that is then integrated into thoughts.
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Hans Vaihinger
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also influenced Adler,"Fictionalisms" to not exist in reality, but help individuals deal with reality.
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Alfred Korxybiski
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Linguist,examined how individuals present their perceptions as reality
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Milton Erickson
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Psychiatrist, had extraordinary ways of viewing patients and then making suggestions to help them..Client Centred
Permission
Give clients permission for who they are
Validation
Any response or behaviour is valid
Observation
Utilisation
Making use of what clients bring
NLP, Human Givens, Strategic, Solution Focused/Oriented, Systemic Therapies
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George Kelly
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Psychologist, studied how individuals use personal constructs
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Early Family therapy approaches studied...
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communication and hidden messages and patterns withing types of communications.
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Two writers who influenced solution-focused therapy
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Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg
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Two writers who influenced Narrative therapy...
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Micheal White(developer of Narrative therapy) and David Epston
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Solution-focused therapists view possible solutions to the problem, and not interested in discussing...
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the causes of the problem
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In solution-focused therapy, the focus is on the expectations that family members have for
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change
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Goals in solution-focused therapy are specific, clear and small...t or f?
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t
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Solution-focused therapists want to know how things would be different in life....
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if the goals were met.
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Progress is often measured in solution-focused therapy using a ...
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0 to 10 scale
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In solutions-focused therapy, feedback at theend of the session may be about
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meeting goals and written or oral feedback about the clients progress or meeting goals
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Solution-focused therapy mindmaps are ...
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diagrams or outlines of the session that are made during or after the session and used by the therapist to focus on organizing the goals and solutions to the problems
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In solution-focused therapy, complimenting ...
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encourages the client
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In solution-focused therapy,what are the three types of complimenting?
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Direct, indirect, and self-compliments
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In solution-focused therapy, what is "pre-therapy change"?
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Change that takes place before the client arrives
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In solution-focused therapy,what are "coping questions"?
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Questions about the client's successful experiences dealing with problems, highlighting the person's ability to cope with the problems.
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In solution-focused therapy, what are "miracle questions"?
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What would be different if a miracle happened? It helps further to define goals.
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In solution-focused therapy, what are"scaling questions"?
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asking the client to rate their progress on a scale of0 to 10
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In solution-focused therapy, what is "assessing motivation"?
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the degree of motivation the client has to make changes...scaling is used to assess the motivations for change.
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In solution-focused therapy,what is "The message"?
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a written message given at the end of a session with instructions or compliments
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In solution-focused therapy, what are exceptions seeking questions"?
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When is the problem not there and what is life like when the problem is not there?
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The basis of Narrative therapy changes and retells stories so that...
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more positive resolutions can occur
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In Narrative Therapy, some literature terms are used such as...
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setting, characterization, plot and themes
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In Narrative Therapy,a significant goal is to help clients see their lives or stories from a....
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more positive view rather than a problem-saturated pov.
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In Narrative Therapy, the technique of "externalizing the problem" means
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making the problem, not the child or family, the opponent. Thus, removing guilt is the focus, not the person's guilty feelings.
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In Narrative Therapy, the technique of "unique outcomes" is also called
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sparkling moments; when the problem starts to dissolve.
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In Narrative Therapy,"alternative narratives" inspire the family to
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explore strengths, special abilities to tell a positive story with good outcomes rather than problem-saturated story
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In Narrative Therapy, "positive narratives",clients tell about what is going well and can
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give the client a sense of empowerment
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In Narrative Therapy,"questions about the future" assist the client looking into the future for
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potentially positive new stories.
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In Narrative Therapy,"leagues" refers to
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lists of former clients who can give encouragement to battle the same problem of the client.
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In Narrative Therapy," testimony therapy" is an
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African experience in America told through stories.
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In Narrative Therapy, "narradrama" is the combo of
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drama therapy and narrative therapy in which individuals can act out their stories.
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What are the values and/or assumptions inherent in Constructivist and Integrative theory?
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The way the client views the problem is the important view.No development of personality or how prolem arose. The problem stimulates the therapist's approach
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How does Constructionist theory view the nature of humans?
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People want to change;Perceptions of reality are important in understanding their actions. And humans sense and integrate the data into thought. And Fictionalisms do not exist in reality but help deal with reality. The mind creates contructs to perceive the world.And People create and present their constructs as reality.
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George Kelly developed the "Reptest" to measure ...
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dichotomies that areimportant to the client's life...reptest uncovers constructs
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In "Fixed role therapy", a client acts out...
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the constructs of an imaginary person to demonstrate how to use new constructs that are more useful.
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Why did Erikson receive manila envelopes in the mail?
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One of his clients sent him her psychotic episodes as away to deeal with them,
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Why did Erikson receive manila envelopes in the mail?
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One of his clients sent him her psychotic episodes as away to deeal with them,
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According to Constructivist theory, what does health look like?
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Reconstructed point of view of the client deals better with life, more positively.
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What are considered problems and what causes them according to the Constructivist Approach?
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Anything the client considers a problem.
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Within Constructivist Approach framework what is the goal of life? Of therapy?
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to change problems into Positive outcomes
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What are the processes or techniques employed by Solution focused therapy within the Constructivist approach to reach the goals of life and/or mental health?
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the message, collaborative relationship, complimenting, pre-therapy change, coping questions,miracle question, scaling, assessing motivation, exception seeking questions,formula first session task.
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What populations and disorders would Constructionist approach be most effective with? The least effective with?
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couples, family, individuals... esp, children's psychological prolems, groups...least effective with serious disorders better answer somewhere please?
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Change is constant and inevitable...
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is part of the basic philosophy of Solution-focused Therapy.
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In Solution-focused therapy,
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clients are experts and define goals, therapist id's and amplifies change.
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Future orientation-history is not essential
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is part of the basic philosophy of Solution-focused therapy
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In Solution-focused therapy, emphasis is on...
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what is possible and changeable, do something different.
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Short-term and brief,
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Solution-focused therapy, only a small amount ofchange is needed
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Current solutions ARE the problem
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is part of the solution-focused therapy
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Exceptions are differences, in solution focused therapy,such as
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behaviors, perceptions, thoughts and feelings that contrast the complaint
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Problems, viewed through Solution focused therapy, are maintained by
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doing more of the same and not expecting change (how's that working for ya?)
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Solution focused therapy does
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acknowledge distress, focus on success, solution talk- not problem talk
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It is usually unnecessary to know much about the complaint in order to resolve it.
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is a basic assumption of Solution focused therapy
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In solution focused therapy, It’s not necessary to know the cause or function of a complaint to resolve it.T or F?
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T
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Some basic assumptions in solution focused therapy are
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A small change is all that is necessary.
A change in one part of the system can affect change in another.
Clients define goals
There is no one right way to view things.
Different views may be valid.
Focus on what is possible and changeable, rather than what is impossible and intractable.
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3 types of client in solution focused therapy
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Visitors: no complaints, along for the ride; complimented and given no tasks
Complainants: going along to placate and appease; complain, distant, observant, and expectant - given observational and thinking tasks
Customers: Do Something – want to change; given behavioural tasks
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Questions in solution focused therapy are not to gather information, but to
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ask constructive questions that generate new experience about possible solutions, client strengths and capabilities
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What types of questions does a solution focused therapist ask?
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Goal setting questions
Miracle questions
Exception questions
Coping questions
Scaling questions
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Adler’s Fundamental Question is
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“What would be different if all your problems were solved?”
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Erickson asked his client to look into the future and see themselves as they wanted to be, problems solved, and then to explain what had happened to cause this change to come about, is known as
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Erickson’s Crystal Ball
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O’Hanlon’s Videotape Question
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watch a video of your life in the future, what would you be doing on the video that would show that things were better?
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Examples of Exception Questions in solution focused therapy are
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Tell me about the times when (the complaint) does not occur, or occurs less than at other times.
When does your partner listen to you?
Tell me about the days when you wake up more full of life.
When are the times you manage to get everything done at work?
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De Shazer’s Skeleton Keys are...
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Between now and next time…observe what works
Do something different
Pay attention to when…exception
Normalize “a lot of people in your situation…”
Write, read, and burn thoughts
ALL INTERVENTIONS GIVE HOPE
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The limits of language ….
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mean the limits of my world
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Words were originally magic
and to this day
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words have
retained much of their magical
power. Sigmund Freud
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Words are the physicians
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of a
mind diseased. Aeschylus
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PRIMARY THEMES IN NARRATIVE THERAPY are
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Realities are socially constructed
Realities are constituted through language
Narrative organizes and maintains reality
There are no essential truths
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more PRIMARY THEMES IN NARRATIVE THERAPY are
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Our lives are storied
Identity generated through stories
People are not problems
Problems are to be externalized
Deconstruct problems
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REALITIES ARE SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED
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We become who we are through relationship—through how others perceive us and interact with us and how we make meaning of the social interaction
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In narrative therapy, REALITIES ARE SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED...
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Self dwells within the story
Confirmed and modified through interaction
Basis for identity rests in the group fiction
Fiction can either heal or cripple the person who possesses it
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According to narrative therapy,REALITIES ARE CONSTITUTED THROUGH LANGUAGE because
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Internal reality differs from external reality

Combination of values, experience and filters

Postmodernists state that words and language create reality
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[Three umpires] are sitting around over a beer, and one says, “There’s balls and there’s strikes and I call ‘em the way they are.” Another says, “There’s balls and strikes and I call ‘em the way I see ‘em.” The third says,
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“There’s balls and there’s strikes, and they ain’t nothin’ until I call ‘em.”
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NARRATIVE ORGANIZES AND MAINTAINS REALITY examples from movies are
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Wag the Dog
Snakes on a Plane
Forest Gump
JFK
Fahrenheit 911
60 Minutes, 20/20, Dateline
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“What, therefore, is truth? …..
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truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions.”

(Nietzsche)
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IDENTITY GENERATED THROUGH STORIES...
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Represents the key to meaning and significance
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Stories provide
Significant events
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and appropriate meanings for listeners
Identify and affiliation for those who tell them
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Hidden problems cannot be changed
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“only as sick as your secrets”
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According to narrative therapy,Externalization allows
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re-authoring and may need to externalize solution as well as problem
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DECONSTRUCT THE PROBLEM, in narrative therapy, by
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erasing the object of the textas well as the author, “I’m not much, but I’m all I think about.”
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An EXAMPLE OF DECONSTRUCTION is
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“A tear in the hand of a Western man
He’ll tell you about salt, carbon and water
But a tear to an Oriental man
He’ll tell you about sadness, sorrow, the love of a man and a woman.” “Ride the Tiger,” Jefferson Starship (1974) Dragon Fly
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Narrative therapy is effective for
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treating addictions and depression, also for family therapy
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