Exam 13: Postmodern Approaches

Narrative therapists attempt to do all of the following except:

One narrative technique for consolidating the gains a client makes involves a therapist writing letters to the person. This technique is:

In regards to brief therapy, the average length of therapy is _, with the most common length being only one session.

The founder(s) of narrative therapy is (are):

The techniques of externalisation and developing unique events are associated primarily with:

The role of the leader in solution-focused therapy groups is not:

The founder(s) of solution-focused brief therapy is (are):

The use of techniques is fundamental in narrative therapy.

Narrative therapy is a strengths-based approach that emphasises collaboration between client and therapist to help clients view themselves as empowered and living the way they want.

In solution-focused therapy, exceptions represent instances when a particular problem in a client's life was not prominent.

During the solution-focused initial therapy session, it is common for solution-focused therapists to ask, 'What have you done since you called for the appointment that has made a difference in your problem?' This describes:

In solution-focused brief therapy, the role of the client is to create, explore, and co-author his or her evolving story.

The solution-focused approach was originally designed as a brief model of psychotherapy.

In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:

Social constructionism explains how values are transmitted through language by the social environment and suggests that individuals are constantly changing with the influences of all of the following except:

A key theme of SFBT is, when you know what is working, do more of it. If something is not working, try something different.

The postmodern view incorporates all of the following concepts except for the idea that:

A main task of the narrative therapist is to help clients construct a:

Dimakatso believes that no one will ever want to hire her because she has a timid personality. Her solution-focused therapist would be most inclined to:

A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the following questions?