Collaborative Language Therapy – Flashcards

from Harlene Anderson and Harry Goolishian. It's a model based on the idea that problems are maintained in the family's language and may be resolved by changes in their use of language. The therapist asks questions from a "not knowing" stance. This is designed to draw out the client's own views of the problem. The problem is "dissolved" as new meanings and actions evolve.

Dialogical conversations, Languaging, Multiversatile, Non-pathalogizing perspective, Philosophical stance, Postmodern theory, Problem determined system, Problem organizing/problem-dis-solving system, Socially constructed knowledge, Stuck system

a Collaborative Language stance in which the therapists do not use diagnoses, give directives, make hypothesis. They may offer tentative opinions or ideas, but assert that to take a more "expert" or directive stance would limit the solutions the family and the therapist might discover through their conversations. The therapist and client engage in conversation and inquiry as partners. The therapist is not separate from the problem system.

a Collaborative Language concept describing any system in which a problem is so prominent in the family's conversation that few decisions can be made without taking it into account. People who are Interested in Talking about the Problem constitute this type of system.

problems are maintained in language by a problem-determined system and the view of the problem hampers any successful means of resolution

generate new meaning about the problem and take new actions to resolve the problem

therapy is not thought of in stages but as a continuous process. Focus on language and interactions. Dialogical conversations - collaboration or exchanging and discussing ideas, feelings, etc.

Multipartial, Not knowing, Honors the client's reality, Listener, Responsive, Compassionate, Co-explorer. Termination is mutually and collaboratively determined

conversational questions, not-knowing approach, reflecting team, shared inquiry.