Deck 16: Narrative Therapy

Question 1

According to narrative therapists, how do stories work in our lives?

A) Stories shape our lives
B) Stories mirror our lives
C) Stories confuse reality
D) Stories create our personalities

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Narrative therapists believe that an individual's personality is always changing.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

In which stage of narrative therapy would a client name their problem?

A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 4
D) Stage 5

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which idea did narrative therapists adopt from Foucault?

A) The belief that knowledge is language based
B) The belief that we can only truly understand our own experience
C) The belief that we must work to eliminate conflict between our needs
D) There is no objective reality

Question 5

Dr. Golden is a narrative therapist. What would be her perspective on psychopathology?

A) It does not exist.
B) It is socially constructed.
C) It should be simply separated into healthy and unhealthy; other labels do not matter
D) Psychologists and psychiatrists are the experts on what psychopathology is.

Question 6

Thin descriptions primarily focus on a person's weaknesses.

Question 7

Narrative therapy grew out of behavioral therapy.

Question 8

A therapist tells his client that anxiety has interrupted her life. What therapy model does that therapist most likely follow?

A) Reality therapy
B) Gestalt therapy
C) Solution-focused therapy
D) Narrative therapy

Question 9

Stories about a client's hoped for life status are called__________.

A) Thick stories
B) Alternative stories
C) Preferred stories
D) Ideal stories

Question 10

A major contribution of narrative therapy is that it has helped to change (along with solution-focused therapy) the dominant paradigm in counseling and in the helping professions.

Question 11

When a person's stories primarily focus on negative personal qualities, he or she tends to ignore those stories that focus on positive qualities.

Question 12

What is one of the benefits of mapping the problem in narrative therapy?

A) The therapist and client build a closer relationship
B) The client increases his or her sense of agency
C) The client becomes more confident in the skill of the therapist
D) The problem becomes more internalized

Question 13

Which of the following would NOT take place during the process of reauthoring?

A) Witnesses from outside of the counseling situation may be called in to validate the reauthored story
B) Lists of achievement and achievement certificates may be made.
C) The client will create a new story that involves the client fixing the problem
D) The therapist will tell the client the best way to shape their new story

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a belief that a narrative therapist would have?

A) When people judge themselves they do it through the eyes of an imaginary social audience.
B) People desire to seek meaning in their lives
C) The self can be completely understood by looking inward
D) People interpret their lives based on the stories that they tell themselves.

Question 15

Which idea did narrative therapists adopt from postmodernism?

A) The belief that knowledge is language based
B) The belief that we can only truly understand our own experience
C) The belief that we must work to eliminate conflict between our needs
D) There is no objective reality

Question 16

Which is true of therapeutic letter writing?

A) It is done only by the therapist
B) They reinforce what has taken place in therapy and may be as impactful as three therapy sessions
C) They focus on what the client should do from now until the next session
D) They list people that can be a support to the client between now and the next session

Question 17

What is a likely description of a thin description?

A) The description is one dimensional and does not include the complexities of life
B) The description only includes the client and no other characters
C) The description fails to give enough details for a theme to be identified
D) The description does not give the client's true perspective on the story.

Question 18

Which is NOT true about stories in narrative therapy?

A) We live more than one story at a time
B) We have stories about the past, present, and future
C) The client's story is the basic unit of experience
D) Stories show a person's true experiences

Question 19

In narrative therapy, what is a unique outcome?

A) When clients realize that they are different from others in their social world.
B) Any thought, behavior, feeling or event that provides an exception to the dominant story
C) Any outcome that shows clients that they are ready to change their dominant story.
D) The new story that has been created through reauthoring.

Question 20

Externalizing the problem and developing unique outcomes are therapeutic techniques that would be used by which type of therapist?

A) REBT therapist
B) Feminist therapist
C) Narrative therapist
D) Solution-focused therapist

Question 21

Narrative therapy usually consists of five stages. Name these stages.

Question 22

Explain the phrase "We can only know our experience of the world-nothing more."

Question 23

Describe dominant life stories.

Question 24

Compare and contrast alternative and preferred stories.

Question 25

How are plots used in narrative therapy?

Question 26

What is characterization?

Question 27

What does it mean to adopt a nonknowing position?

Question 28

Describe thin descriptions.

Question 29

The therapist adopts a position of knowing as the client tells his or her story so that they can demonstrate empathy.

Question 30

Narrative therapy assesses the influence of culture on clients' narrative stories.

Question 31

How do therapists help clients create thick descriptions?

Question 32

Narrative therapy emerged out of several traditions. List these traditions.

Question 33

Outsider witnesses are used as invited listeners to a client's consultation.

Question 34

When clients deconstruct stories they make it more difficult to reauthor the stories.

Question 35

What is the role of the client in narrative therapy?

Question 36

Discuss the technique of outsider witnesses.

Question 37

What are the goals of narrative therapy?

Question 38

Describe some of the criticisms of narrative therapy.

Question 39

What does it mean for a client to map the influence of his or her problem?

Question 40

Reconstruction and reauthoring are the same thing in narrative therapy.