Exam 10: Collaborative and Narrative Therapies

When a collaborative therapist asks the client questions to better understand the client's perspective, or inquires whether the client believes the therapist is understanding what the client is saying, what type of stance is the therapist taking?

In narrative therapy, the process or intervention of separating the person from the problem is known as:

Philosopher Michel Foucault described a central concept for narrative therapy: culturally-generated stories about how life should go that are used to coordinate social behavior, such as how married people should act, what happiness looks like, and how to be successful. What did Foucault call these stories?

Instead of replacing the problem story with a problem-free story, narrative therapists help their clients do which of the following?

Which of the following would NOT be considered collaborative in collaborative therapy?

In collaborative therapy, it is said that problems dissolve. What does this mean?

In dominant gendered discourses, that define how men and women should behave themselves, women are expected to:

In narrative therapy, letters are used for each of the following purposes EXCEPT:

Narrative therapy is based on what premise?

In collaborative therapy, therapists take a not knowing stance. What does this mean?

A narrative therapist is working with a 17-year-old client, Alexa, and her mother regarding Alexa's struggles with an eating disorder. As therapy has progressed, and the therapist has worked with Alexa to separate her from her problem, the therapist might phrase a middle-phase goal in therapy in which of the following ways?

Collaborative therapists handle professional matters-such as consulting with a psychiatrist, speaking with a social worker, or filing papers with the court-by discussing it first with the client. What is another way a collaborative therapist might say this?

Collaborative therapists work from a social constructionist, postmodern perspective, which maintains that our realities are constructed in __________ and through relationships.

When Anderson and Goolishian radically proposed the client as the expert, what did they mean?

Which of the following types of questions, used in collaborative therapy, comes naturally from the dialogue of therapy rather than from professional theory?

Collaborative therapists invite clients to provide feedback about the therapeutic process. Which of the following does process NOT refer to?

In collaborative therapy, outer talk refers to:

Anderson offered several guidelines for the use of reflecting teams with clients. Which of the following is NOT one of these guidelines?

According to Siegel (2012), processing experience using the bottom three layers of the prefrontal cortex to generate new understandings, categories, and stories for what is happening is known as:

When thinking of the client as expert in collaborative therapy, it may be helpful to think of the client as holding more expertise in the area of __________and the therapist as holding more expertise in the area of __________.