Corey Chapter 13

There are three kinds of solution-focused therapeutic relationships. The client describes a problem but is not able or willing to assume a role in constructing a solution, believing that a solution is dependent on someone else's actions describes which relationship?

Complaint

There are three kinds of solution-focused therapeutic relationships. The client and therapist jointly identify a problem and a solution to work toward describes which relationship?

Customer

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

In the solution-oriented approach, which is not considered one of the three basic parts to the structure of summary feedback?

Expressing concern

Assessment and therapy techniques are more important than empathy to a social constructionist.

False

Clients are never stuck in a pattern of living a problem-saturated story that does not work.

False

In social constructionism, the therapist assumes the role of expert, rather than adopting a collaborative or consultative stance.

False

Narrative therapists pay significant attention to a client's past as it helps them understand the origins of client's stories.

False

The linguistic approach stresses the expert role of the therapist in suggesting solutions to a family's problems.

False

The use of techniques is fundamental in narrative therapy.

False

Of the following, what is an interest that social constructionists tend to share?

Generating new meaning in the lives of individuals

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

Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer

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

Michael White and David Epston.

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.

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

True

All social constructionist theories emphasize listening to clients without judgment or blame, affirming and valuing them.

True

Even science is not free from the influence of such processes of social construction.

True

Externalizing conversations counteract oppressive, problem-saturated stories and empower clients to feel competent to handle the problems they face.

True

In postmodern thinking, language and the use of language in stories create meaning.

True

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

True

In solution-focused therapy, behavior change is viewed as the most effective approach to assisting people in enhancing their lives.

True

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

True

Modernists believe in the ability to describe objective reality accurately and assume that it can be observed and systematically known through the scientific method.

True

Narrative therapy has been effectively applied in school settings.

True

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

True

SFBT is an optimistic, antideterministic, future-oriented approach based on the assumption that clients have the ability to change quickly and can create a problem-free language as they strive for a new reality.

True

Solution-focused brief therapy differs from traditional therapies by eschewing the past in favor of both the present and the future.

True

Solution-focused brief therapy is grounded on the optimistic assumption that people are healthy and competent and have the ability to construct solutions that can enhance their lives.

True

Solution-focused therapists often use scaling questions.

True

The main goal of brief therapy is to help clients efficiently resolve problems and to move forward as quickly as possible.

True

The narrative emphasis on creating an appreciative audience for new developments in an individual's life lends itself to group counseling.

True

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

True

Without the cultural conditions that accept the concept of depression, talking about a person as depressed would mean nothing.

True

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.

There are three kinds of solution-focused therapeutic relationships. The client comes to therapy because someone else (a spouse, parent, teacher, or probation officer) thinks the client has a problem describes which relationship?

Visitor

Donna feels certain that no one will ever want to hire her because she has a timid personality. Her solution- oriented therapist would be most inclined to:

ask Donna to examine another side of the story she is presenting about herself and think of times when she was accepted by others.

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

behavior.

Narrative conversations do not follow the linear progression described here; it is better to think of these steps in terms of progression.

cyclical

From a social constructionist perspective, change begins with:

deconstructing the power of cultural narratives.

Constructing counter stories goes hand in hand with

deconstruction.

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

documenting the evidence.

Narrative therapists attempt to do all of the following except:

encourage free association.

All are true of solution-focused brief therapists except that they:

focus on the client's early childhood experiences.

Narrative therapists pay attention to "sparkling moments." These are:

identifying instances when the problem did not completely dominate the client's life.

A limitation of the postmodern approaches is:

inexperienced therapists may over rely on techniques and appear mechanistic.

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 storied lives.

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.

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

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

preferred story line.

It is within the scope of SFBT practice to allow for some discussion of _______ to validate clients' experience.

presenting problems

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

pretherapy change.

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

reality is objectively defined.

From the very first solution-focused interview, the therapist is mindful of working toward:

termination.

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

the collaborative therapeutic relationship.

The solution-focused brief therapy therapeutic process rests on the foundation that clients are:

the experts on their own lives.

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

the narrative approach.

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

three to eight sessions

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

to provide clients with simple solutions to their problems.

All of the following are techniques used in solution-focused therapy except for:

using the reflecting team.