Postmodern Therapy

Question 1

True or false: narrative therapist believed new stories take hold when there is an audience to appreciate and support such stories

Answer 1

T

Question 2

True or false: one of the functions of a narrative therapist is to ask questions the client and based on the answers, generate further questions

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True or false: narrative therapy is a relational and anti-individualistic practice

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or false: narrative practitioners encourage clients to avoid being reduced by totalising descriptions of their identity

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or false: narrative therapist pay more attention to a client’s past than they do to a client’s present and future

Answer 5

False

Question 6

True or false: in solution-focused therapy gathering extensive information about a problem is a necessary step helping clients find a solution to the problem

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Solution-focused therapists assist clients in paying attention to the exceptions to their problem patterns

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or false: solution-focus therapists use questions that presuppose changed, posit multiple answers, and remained goal-directed and future-orientated

Answer 8

True

Question 9

In solution-focused therapy, the role of the client is to create solutions based on his or her internal resources

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Because solution-focused therapy is designed to be brief, it is essential that therapists teach client specific strategies for understanding their problems True or False

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Which of the following is true of narrative therapy and solution-focused therapy

A. The client is an expert on his or her own life

B. the therapeutic will relationship should be hierarchical

C. The therapist is the expert on the client’s life

D. client should adjust the social and cultural norms

E. for change to occur, clients must first acquire insight into their problems

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Answer 11

A

Question 12

A major goal of narrative therapy is to

A. Shift from problem-talk to solution-talk

B. assist clients in designing creative solutions to their problem

C. Invite clients to describe their experience in new and fresh language and in doing so open up a new vision of what is possible

D. uncover a clients self- defeating cognitions

E. enable clients to gain clarity about the ways their family of origen still effect them today

Answer 12

C

Question 13

All are the following are true of narrative therapy except for
A. Viewing problems in the sociopolitical and cultural context
B. Assisting clients in developing an alternative life story
C. Accepting the premise that diagnosis is a basic prerequisite for effective treatment
D. Creating a therapeutic relationship that is collaborative
E. Recognising the clients know what is best for their life and are experts in their own life

Answer 13

C

Question 14

Which of the following interventions is least likely to be used by narrative therapist
A. Externalising conversations
B. Mapping the influence of a problem
C. Power analysis and intervention
D. The search for unique outcomes
E. Documenting the evidence

Answer 14

C

Question 15

Which of these techniques is not used in solution focused therapy
A. Lifestyle assessment
B. Scaling questions
C. The miracle question
D. Formula first session task
E. Exception questions

Answer 15

A

Question 16

A major strength of both solution-focused and narrative therapies is the
A. Empirical evidence that is being collected on both approaches
B. Attention given to howl one’s early history sheds light on understanding current problems
C. History-taking procedure used during the intake interview
D. Use of questioning

Answer 16

D

Question 17

Two of the major founders of solution-focused brief therapy are

A. Michael White and David Epstein
B. Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer
C. Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian
D. John Walter and Jane Peller

Answer 17

B

Question 18

Two of the major founders of narrative therapy are

Michael White and David Epston True or False

Answer 18

True

Question 19

The therapeutic process and solution-focused brief therapy involves all of the following except for the notion
A. Of creating collaborative therapeutic relationships
B. Of asking clients about those times when their problems were not present or when they were less severe
C. The clients are the experts on their own lives
D. That’s solutions evolve out of therapeutic conversations and dialogues
E. That therapists are experts in assessment and diagnosis

Answer 19

E

Question 20

Which of the following is not a basic assumption guiding the practice of solution-focused brief therapy
A. Individuals who come to therapy have the ability to effectively cope with their problems
B. There are advantages to a positive focus on solutions and on the future
C. Clients want to change, have the capacity to change, and are doing their best to make change happen
D. Using techniques in therapy is a way of discounting a client’s capacity to find his or her own way

Answer 20

D

Question 21

In solution-focused therapy, which kind of relationship is characterised by the client and therapist jointly identifying a problem and the solution to work toward
A. Customer-type relationship
B. The complainant
C. A visitor
D. Compliant client

Answer 21

A

Question 22

Pre-therapy change is a solution-focused therapy technique that
A. Is arrived at by asking clients about exceptions to their problems
B. Ask clients to address changes that have taken place from the time they made an appointment to the first therapy session
C. Is based on a series of tests that the client makes prior to beginning therapy to get baseline data
D. Involves the therapist offering clients ways they can change their perspective on the problems that brought them to therapy

Answer 22

B

Question 23

Which of the solution-focused therapy techniques involves asking clients to describe life without the problem

a. Pretherapy change
b. The miracle question
c. Exception questions
d. Scaling
e. Formula first session task

Answer 23

B

Question 24

In narrative therapy, the process of finding evidence to bolster a new view of the person is competent enough to stood up to or defeated the dominance or oppression of the problem refers to
A. The initial assessment
B. Exploring problem-saturated stories
C. Objectifying the problem
D. The search for unique outcomes

Answer 24

D

Question 25

Which of the following statements about creating alternative stories is not true
A. Constructing new stories goes hand-in-hand with deconstructing problem-saturated narratives
B. The narrative therapist analyses and interprets the meaning of the clients story
C. The therapist works with clients collaboratively by helping them construct more coherent and comprehensive stories that they live by
D. The development of alternative stories is an enactment of ultimate hope
E. The narrative therapist listens for openings to new stories

Answer 25

B