A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the following questions?
if a miracle happened, and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight, how would you know it was solved, and what would be different?
The postmodern view incorporates all of the following concepts except for the notion that:
reality is objectively defined.
Donna feels certain that no one will ever want to hire her because she has a timid personality.
ask Donna to examine another side of the story she is presenting about herself and think of times when she was accepted by others.
In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:
the collaborative therapeutic relationship
All of the following are techniques used in solution-focused therapy except for:
using the reflecting team
All of the following are characteristics shared by the postmodern and person-centered approaches except:
the importance of using specific techniques in therapy.
All are true of solution-focused brief therapists except that they:
focus on the clients early childhood experience.
in the solution-oriented approach, which is not considered one of the three basic parts to the structure of summary feedback?
expressing concern
9. The therapeutic process in solution-focused brief therapy involves:
all of these
10. Which of the following is false as it applies to the practice of solution-focused brief therapy?
using techniques in therapy is a way of discounting a client's capacity to find his or her own way
11. Narrative therapy has been found to be particularly effective with diverse client populations for all of the following reasons except:
it teaches diverse clients to replace their own narratives with ones that conform more closely to the ideals and values of mainstream culture
12. The role of the leader in solution-focused therapy groups is not:
to provide clients with simple solutions to their problems
13. Which of these solution-focused therapy techniques involves asking clients to describe times in their lives when they were able to solve their problem or when their problem was less severe?
exception questions
Solution-focused brief therapy has parallels with______________, which concentrates on what is right and what is working for people rather than dwelling on deficits, weaknesses, and problems.
positive psychology
15. Which of the following statements about creating alternative stories is not true?
the narrative therapist analyzes and interprets the meaning of a client's story
16. From a social constructionist perspective, change begins with:
deconstructing the power of cultural narratives
17. Of the following, what is an interest that social constructionists tend to share?
generating new meaning in the lives of individuals
18. The techniques of externalization and developing unique events are associated primarily with:
the narrative approach
19. Narrative therapists attempt to do all of the following except:
encourage free association
20. Narrative therapists pay attention to "sparkling events." These are:
events that contradict problem-saturated narratives
21. The creation of the self, which dominated the modernist search for human essence and truth:
is being replaced by postmodernists with the concept of socially stored lives
a limitation of the postmodern approach is:
inexperienced therapists may over rely on techniques and appear mechanistic
23. Which is not a major contribution of the postmodern approaches?
research on these approaches is considered empirically generalizable
24. The founder(s) of solution-focused brief therapy is (are):
Insoo Kim Berg and Dteve de Shazer
25. The founder(s) of narrative therapy is (are):
Michael White and David Epston