Deck 15: Constructivist Approaches to Addiction Counseling

Question 1

Womanist theories grew out of feminist networks because:

A) A need for women of color and their lives, experiences, empowerment, and power needed to be recognized
B) An understanding of older women was needed in regard to addiction
C) A need for social justice needed to be understood
D) A need for equality between men and women needed to be understood

Answer 1

A need for women of color and their lives, experiences, empowerment, and power needed to be recognized

Question 2

Feminist, womanist, and narrative therapy share a common philosophical stance around the issues of:

A) Intersectionality
B) Personal stories to understand addiction
C) Justice, power, and advocacy
D) Equality and duty to others

Answer 2

Justice, power, and advocacy

Question 3

Who advocated for the counseling and psychology fields to shift to center on the concerns of women?

A) Alice Walker
B) Charlotte Kasl
C) Layli Phillips
D) Jean Baker Miller

Answer 3

Jean Baker Miller

Question 4

Who described 16 steps to healing addiction that integrated increased attention to community supports and affirmation of women's identities and empowerment?

A) Layli Phillips
B) Charlotte Kasl
C) Jean Baker Miller
D) Alice Walker

Question 5

_________ focus on women's experiences of sexism with regard to gender.

A) Cultural feminists
B) Womanists
C) Radical feminists
D) Liberal feminists

Question 6

_________ focus on women's experiences and assert that the structural inequalities within patriarchy are so embedded within institutional power structures that the only way to transform these structures were to develop new approaches to power.

A) Liberal feminists
B) Radical feminists
C) Social feminists
D) Cultural feminists

Question 7

_________ focus on women's experiences with regard to gender and economic-class structures in society.

A) Social feminists
B) Womanists
C) Liberal feminists
D) Radical feminists

Question 8

_________ focus on women's experiences in relation to race, ethnicity, gender, and intersectionality.

A) Cultural feminists
B) Womanists
C) Liberal feminists
D) Social feminists

Question 9

_________ focus on women's experiences and lives and a transformation of patriarchal structures through this valuation.

A) Liberal feminists
B) Social feminists
C) Cultural feminists
D) Womanists

Question 10

A contextually appropriate counseling approach to help women of color struggling with addiction from a culturally sensitive framework that acknowledges intersection of race and gender is described as:

A) Feminism
B) Nativism
C) Womanism
D) Social feminism

Question 11

The womanist counseling approach is derived from:

A) Charlotte Kasl
B) Jean Baker Miller
C) Layli Phillips
D) Alice Walker

Question 12

Who constructed the five tenets of womanism?

A) Charlotte Kasl
B) Jean Baker Miller
C) Layli Phillips
D) Alice Walker

Question 13

What is defined as "the idea that all people who share a singular characteristic also share the same experiences"?

A) Intersectionality
B) Nativism
C) Socialization
D) Essentialism

Question 14

__________ focuses on empowering individuals beyond socially constructed identities used to oppress and dominate marginalized groups.

A) Non-ideological
B) Anti-oppression
C) Vernacular

Question 15

What is described as "the everyday" where people are simply members of humankind with similar goals and desires, and the core of humanity is not a divergence of those with and without privilege?

A) Vernacular
B) Spirituality/luxocracy
C) Anti-oppression
D) Non-ideological

Question 16

__________ promotes inclusiveness and positive interrelationships by deconstructing "lines of demarcation" and recognizes the values of removing areas of demarcation and replacing these spaces with positive structures.

A) Non-ideological
B) Spirituality/luxocracy
C) Vernacular
D) Communitarian

Question 17

"Commonweal as the goal of social change" is consistent with what tenet of womanism?

A) Anti-oppression
B) Non-ideological
C) Spirituality/luxocracy
D) Communitarian

Question 18

____________ asserts interconnection of all natural creations which include people, animals, plants, and other forms of life on earth.

A) Non-ideological
B) Communitarian
C) Spirituality/luxocracy
D) Anti-oppression

Question 19

Which of the following is not one of the primary concerns of narrative therapy?

A) The social, cultural, and historical influences on how people construct meaning
B) How people construct meaning
C) How race and sex contribute to one's meaning of the self
D) How people become stuck

Question 20

What is the goal of narrative counseling?

A) Help people shift from narratives of failure to preferred narratives of hope and meaning
B) Help people eliminate human dilemmas
C) Help people change their dominant cultural narratives
D) Help people understand how societal influences negatively impact one's own narratives

Question 21

Which of the following approaches is used to help separate the problem from the person?

A) Externalizing conversations
B) Reflective practices
C) Deconstructive listening
D) Detaching

Question 22

What approach helps to unravel the history of the problem for the client?

A) Externalizing conversations
B) Reflective practices
C) Deconstructive listening
D) Thickening the plot and spreading the news

Question 23

_________ is synonymous with exception to the problem.

A) Listening intently
B) Unique outcomes
C) Thickening the plot
D) Mapping the landscape

Question 24

______________ involves telling, retelling, and retelling of the retelling.

A) Externalizing conversations
B) Thickening the plot and spreading the news
C) Internalizing conversations
D) Mapping the landscape

Question 25

What are the two foci for feminist counselors?

A) Abstinence
B) Valuing women's experiences
C) Social justice change
D) Advocacy

Question 26

Field of addiction counseling began embedded within a white, Western, and mostly male framework.

Question 27

Initially, feminist approaches to addiction counseling faced much resistance.

Question 28

Feminist therapy is one of the few counseling approaches that highlights issues related to physical appearance and control over one's body.

Question 29

Womanism excludes white women and white men.

Question 30

The five tenets of womanism act as an intervention guide for counselors, but it is unnecessary to include all tenets into the therapeutic process.

Question 31

Through the womanist lens, addiction is viewed as a relationship with a substance or behavior that separates the individual from one's sense of self.

Question 32

All dominant narratives are positive.

Question 33

Narrative counselors use a range of techniques when conducting therapy.

Question 34

In narrative therapy, the counselor takes the role of "expert."

Question 35

What are the basic tenets of feminist therapy?

Question 36

List the five tenets of womanism and provide brief descriptions of each.

Question 37

What areas would you assess for a client struggling with addiction if you were operating from a feminist perspective?

Question 38

What are the strengths and weaknesses of feminist theories?

Question 39

What are the strengths and weaknesses of womanist theories?

Question 40

What are the major assumptions of narrative approaches about how change occurs?