Deck 13: Narrative Therapy

Question 1

The central focus of narrative therapy is _____________ stories.

A) secondary
B) dominant
C) universal
D) untrue
E) alternative

Answer 1

dominant

Question 2

___________________ stories are those storylines from clients' lives that go beyond the terms of the problem story and that invite clients to explore other possibilities.

A) Secondary
B) Dominant
C) Universal
D) Untrue
E) Alternative

Answer 2

Alternative

Question 3

Which of the following is not listed in Chapter 13 of the textbook as being in the realm of narrative research?

A) the production of problems in both local and political contexts
B) exploration of how the client would rather have things be
C) uncovering hurtful narratives that have been authored by others in the client's life
D) how meanings have been made in the client's life
E) what the client makes of the effects from meanings drawn

Answer 3

uncovering hurtful narratives that have been authored by others in the client's life

Question 4

Narrative counseling is based on the premise that knowledge is

A) contestable.
B) power.
C) ethereal.
D) subjective.
E) fleeting.

Question 5

What belief does a narrative therapist hold about words?

A) Words have little meaning in and of themselves.
B) Words merely mirror reality.
C) Words are neutral.
D) Words shape and produce reality.
E) Word choice is not exceptionally important for the narrative counselor.

Question 6

Narrative therapy was first articulated by _________________ and _____________.

A) White; Epston
B) Minuchin; Safir
C) Bowen; Hutt
D) Ivey; Drewery
E) Crocket; Campbell

Question 7

The _______________________ format opened space to bring forward into narrative therapy cultural knowledge that might not otherwise have been available in a professional context.

A) self-talk
B) town hall
C) round robin
D) caucus
E) informal therapy

Question 8

_______________ knowledges are ideas that originate from people's own lived experiences in particular settings.

A) Lived
B) Alternative
C) Local
D) Personal
E) Experiential

Question 9

Narrative therapy began within ____________________ therapy.

A) psychodynamic
B) cognitive-behavioral
C) existential
D) reality
E) family

Question 10

A narrative therapist engages in _________________ with a client, a collaborative conversational inquiry to generate knowledges previously available to neither party.

A) therapeutic jest
B) co-research
C) dialectic inquiry
D) parallel storying
E) threaded storytelling

Question 11

In Narrative therapy, the knowledges that one acquires through first-hand experience with a problem or issue is known as

A) in vivo awareness.
B) imprinting.
C) insight.
D) insider knowledges.
E) problem identity.

Question 12

___________________________ is the theory that reality is constructed through interactions among and between people and systems of knowledge, as we give meaning to events in the world.

A) External framing
B) Social constructionism
C) Commuknowledge
D) Postmdernism
E) Cultural rendering

Question 13

The ___________________________ suggests that people come to understand themselves and the world through the stories about self and the world that are available to them in their particular cultural context.

A) postmodern premise
B) culture concept
C) knowledges story
D) self story
E) narrative metaphor

Question 14

A __________________________ is a metanarrative that tells us how things are in our world and makes particular social processes possible.

A) self story
B) dialogue
C) discourse
D) thread
E) frame

Question 15

Which of the following statements best captures the essence of narrative therapy?

A) Everyone has a story to tell and until that story is told, a degree of imbalance will exist for that person.
B) Most individuals create narratives of their lives that are at the least unhelpful and at the most pathological.
C) It takes many years of training to capture an individual's experience in the form of a narrative.
D) People together are shaped by and shape the knowledges that circulate in a culture at any particular time.
E) People's lives are spent primarily living out stories that they were taught as children.

Question 16

The ideas of postmodern philosopher _______________________ provided significant underpinning to narrative therapy.

A) Michel Foucault
B) David Epston
C) Michael White
D) Kathie Crocket
E) Johnella Bird

Question 17

__________________________ describe and specify, on the terms of the dominant institutions and disciplines of the culture, universal norms for what is correct and healthy.

A) Normalization stories
B) Cultural norms
C) Universal truths
D) Common beliefs
E) Dominant discourses

Question 18

___________________________ refers to fitting people into models prescribed on the terms of expert knowledges or on the terms of other dominant discourses.

A) Pigeonholing
B) Normalizing judgment
C) Stereotyping
D) Narrative framing
E) Characterizing

Question 19

A counselor listening for the dialogues at work in shaping a person's story is said to be engaged in

A) co-research.
B) insightful engagement.
C) discursive listening.
D) therapeutic dialogue.
E) active listening.

Question 20

An examination of _________________ underlies narrative therapy's investigation of the interrelationships between people's everyday interactions and the knowledge systems of our culture.

A) power
B) action
C) cognition
D) emotion
E) choice

Question 21

According to narrative therapy, people do not have equal access to any _____________ in any story.

A) title
B) ending
C) discourse
D) position
E) dialogue

Question 22

In fostering an _______________________ conversation, a narrative therapist listens with care to the language that a client is using, then responds with particular grammatical forms that create a space between the person and the problem.

A) overarching
B) individualistic
C) internalizing
D) immediate
E) externalizing

Question 23

____________________________ is a narrative therapy technique that consists of asking questions that are genuine and open to learning from clients about the particular knowledges available from the clients' lived experiences within their particular cultural contexts.

A) Juxtapositioning
B) Meaning making
C) Curious questioning
D) Normalization
E) Dialoguing

Question 24

In narrative therapy, a problem story is told on the __________________ terms.

A) therapist's
B) theory's
C) client's
D) mentor's
E) problem's

Question 25

An alternative story might also be called a(n)

A) understory.
B) counterstory.
C) alternative tale.
D) fictional story.
E) legend.

Question 26

_____________ descriptions of people's lives are on the terms of the dominant discourse and exclude the interpretation of the people themselves or of their own community.

A) Thin
B) Implicit
C) Absent
D) Thick
E) Explicit

Question 27

__________________ descriptions come from the interpretation of the people whose lives are being described and carry the meanings of their own communities.

A) Thin
B) Implicit
C) Absent
D) Thick
E) Explicit

Question 28

Absent but __________________ refers to that which is not spoken but is the "other side" of what is spoken.

A) thin
B) implicit
C) absent
D) thick
E) explicit

Question 29

Narrative therapists use ___________________________ as interventions to record knowledges that are generated in counseling.

A) cognitive dialogues
B) impressions
C) affiliated strands
D) therapeutic documents
E) narrative evaluations

Question 30

__________________ are produced with the agreement of the client, and those for wider circulation are produced with the client's consent.

A) Cognitive dialogues
B) Therapeutic documents
C) Impressions
D) Narrative evaluations
E) Affiliated strands

Question 31

Conversations where clients are invited to select, into the membership of their lives, those with whom connection is enriching are known as _____________________ conversations.

A) remembering
B) selective
C) purposeful
D) storying
E) circle

Question 32

____________________ is the purposeful positioning of oneself, in relation to community, to hear and respond to another's expression or story.

A) Posturing
B) Hierarchical placement
C) Positioning
D) Witnessing
E) Structural blocking

Question 33

In Narrative therapy, the purpose of witnessing is to

A) help the client uncover an alternate story.
B) maximize the effects of knowing clients in relation to the stories they tell about themselves and others tell about them.
C) confront the client when the narrative they tell does not reflect reality.
D) coach the client.
E) enact the narrative of the client in a new and insightful way that adds dimension to the client's story.

Question 34

Michael White uses the word _______________________ to describe the movement towards becoming other than who we were.

A) transport
B) trajectory
C) life path
D) therapeutic course
E) psychological passageway

Question 35

Narrative therapy is a practice of

A) instruction.
B) coaching.
C) consultation.
D) collaboration.
E) distinction.

Question 36

It is important in narrative therapy that identity claims be

A) doubted.
B) honored.
C) disputed.
D) heard.
E) expressed.

Question 37

________________________ listening involves not only hearing the words that the client says, but also the cultural stories being shared.

A) Cultural
B) Explicit
C) Discursive
D) Narrative
E) Holistic

Question 38

When a narrative therapist frames a response to a client's narrative that emphasizes the social justice aspect (for example, pointing out parts of a client's story that might be considered degrading to women) the therapist can be said to be engaging in

A) unethical therapeutic behavior.
B) culture sensitive counseling.
C) co-research with a purpose.
D) emic dialogue.
E) purposive political action.

Question 39

When a client's speaking position is as moral agent in his or her life, the client is said to be engaging in

A) witnessing.
B) instruction.
C) evaluation.
D) co-research.
E) connection.

Question 40

_____________________ attention to relationship practices is central to the epistemology and practice of narrative counseling.

A) Micro
B) Enrichment
C) Linguistic
D) Disconcerting
E) Consultive

Question 41

According to the author of Chapter 13 of the textbook, for modernist therapeutic practice, with its emphasis on universality and the management of populations, __________________ evaluation makes sense. However, for postmodern therapeutic practice with its emphasis on local, interpretive accounts, ________________ evaluation is more appropriate.

A) qualitative; quantitative
B) nomothetic; ideographic
C) ideographic; qualitative
D) quantitative; nomothetic
E) ideothetic; anecdoctal

Question 42

Social constructionist therapies are associated with a "mistrust" of ___________________ knowledge.

A) qualitative
B) nomothetic
C) ideographic
D) quantitative
E) ideothetic

Question 43

To provide information about the effects of narrative practice on clients' lives, narrative counselors most often look to research practices that offer some resonance with the ____________________ of their therapeutic practice.

A) theory
B) clientele
C) techniques
D) settings
E) ethics

Question 44

_________________________________ involves documenting with clients the knowledges and strategies that they believe are important, both in managing what had been problematic to them and in asserting their own preferences for their lives.

A) Consulting your consultants
B) Unleashing documents
C) Meaning making
D) Storying
E) Pillowing

Question 45

An ethic of ________________________ means that narrative practitioners see evaluation as an ongoing project throughout the therapy.

A) consultation
B) evaluation
C) caring
D) collaboration
E) reflectivity

Question 46

List the three important organizing ideas of narrative therapy.

Question 47

How is knowledge construed differently in postmodern thought than in modern thought?

Question 48

In the case example, the narrative therapist uses ten narrative strategies in her work with Maria. List at least seven of these.

Question 49

Identify five of the seven aspects of a narrative counseling relationships identified in the text.

Question 50

What are the two main emphases of narrative therapy?

Question 51

What are three of the four blind spots, or limitations, articulated regarding narrative therapy?