Deck 12: Social Construction - Narrative Practice

Question 1

Narrative practice:

A) emphasizes time and sequencing
B) demonstrates the extent to which historicity is important
C) reveals information about the psychology and experiences of the participants
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Re-authoring recasts a narrative to reveal additional elements or alternative conceptions of it and enable consequent change in behavior or social relations.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A central issue in the politics of narrative practice is the focus by narrative practice on ____:

A) social change and social justice
B) following well-established protocols
C) individual and personal
D) none of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The main rights that are relevant to narrative practice are:

A) to help people express their narratives
B) to have privacy about their stories
C) to not be criticized
D) expressed in informed consent documents

Question 5

Techniques for helping narrative practice include:

A) helping people lay out their stories
B) controlling the expression of people's stories
C) using questionnaires or assessment instruments for documentation
D) all of the above

Question 6

The presence of relatively few structured guidelines for practice is one of the limitations of narrative practice approaches:

Question 7

What is the role of co-construction?

A) practitioner-client collaboration in developing narratives
B) work on creating social support for narrative practice
C) helping the client develop alternative narratives
D) none of the above

Question 8

Narrative practice's focus on expressing feelings and understandings:

A) allows the practitioner to their present main narrative with deeper understandings
B) allows a fuller, more nuanced, richer understanding of the range of possible interpretations
C) allows many people to deal with the aftermath of demanding events in their lives
D) all of the above

Question 9

Narrative practice techniques can be used in many other forms of practice:

Question 10

Narrative practice:

A) provides a coherent practice model that can help people respond to demanding changes in their lives
B) offers useful techniques for many other forms of practice
C) help clients deal with change and power in intimate relationships
D) all of the above

Question 11

Narrative practice in social work:

A) developed from Freudian analysis that examines social problems
B) has a very limited range of practice due to the basis is a medical model
C) enables people to explore and shape their understanding of personal and social impacts of issues in their lives
D) none of the above

Question 12

Recasting figures who figure in a narrative to identify additional elements or roles

A) is known as re-storying
B) is known as re-authoring
C) enables consequent change in behavior or social relations
D) all of the above

Question 13

Culture and literary studies provided a major contribution to narrative practice.

Question 14

Arguments for narrative social work being practical include:

A) not telling clients what changes need to be made
B) allowing people to explore the social contexts of their life experiences
C) use of interventions that deal with power and inequality
D) none of the above

Question 15

Externalizing:

A) identifies a social problem to be addressed
B) shifts a problem in the narrative to outside the narrator
C) explains a narrative to an outside person such as an agency representative
D) moves the narrative to written form

Question 16

Reframing reconstructs an event:

Question 17

Ideas about narratives:

A) connect with the psychanalytic thinking and hidden psychological and social reactions to the world
B) are used to help organize practitioner approaches to therapy
C) may be useful for some tyhpes of practice
D) none of the above

Question 18

Social work narrative practice may use methods such as:

A) planned cognitive and behavioral change
B) 'en-voicing' and 're-enchantment'
C) therapies such as primal scream to allow clients to relieve their stress
D) group work

Question 19

Some writers argue that it is a recognized human right for persons to express themselves in narratives:

Question 20

Re-storying

A) enables a change in social relations
B) enables change in behavior
C) recasting a narrative to reveal additional elements or alternative conceptions of it
D) all of the above