Deck 14: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative Family Therapy

Question 1

In Narrative family therapy, normative patterns are used as models for families to strive for.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Questions designed to reveal the meaning and importance of exceptions are called:

A) exception questions
B) unique outcomes
C) reauthoring questions
D) significance questions
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Answer 2

D

Question 3

Solution-focused family therapy is based on:

A) psychoanalysis
B) humanistic-existential psychology
C) social constructionism
D) humanistic-existential psychology

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Unlike Bowen or psychoanalytic theory, in Solution-focused family therapy virtually no attention is paid to history.

Question 5

Narrative family therapy is a systemic approach based on social constructionism and postmodernism.

Question 6

The role of the therapist in Narrative family therapy is:

A) expert
B) consultant
C) collaborator
D) director

Question 7

This question, used by Solution focused therapists, is intended to direct family members' attention to times in the past or present when they did not have the problem.

A) exception question
B) miracle question
C) scaling question
D) none of the above

Question 8

In Solution-focused family therapy, all families are believed to have the resources and strengths to resolve complaints.

Question 9

Like most other family therapy approaches, Narrative family therapy is based on logico-scientific reasoning (i.e., empiricism and logic).
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Question 10

"There are no universal principles or truths" is a theoretical premise most consistent with:

A) narrative family therapy
B) solution-focused family therapy
C) experiential family therapy
D) none of the above

Question 11

In Solution-focused therapy, the best approach to use with 'complainants' is to:

A) respect them, try and establish rapport, and hope they will become customers eventually
B) assign them activities where they can focus on exceptions, respect them, and hope they will become customers eventually
C) engage them in solution oriented conversations and co-create assignments to reproduce behaviors that are exceptions to the problem
D) none of the above

Question 12

In Narrative family therapy, _____ is a way for families to highlight different stories than those that have been dominant.

A) deconstruction
B) externalization
C) reauthoring
D) celebration

Question 13

In Solution-focused therapy, _____ factors are not important.

A) causal
B) social
C) cultural
D) all of the above

Question 14

_____ are Solution-focused family therapy procedures that have worked before and that have a universal application that can help families solve a variety of problems.

A) clues
B) skeleton keys
C) pre-suppositional questions
D) compliments

Question 15

A treatment technique in the narrative family therapy model is _____, which is used to solve problems in that the problem becomes a separate entity that the whole family needs to solve as a team.

A) externalization
B) reauthoring
C) celebration
D) significance