Family Systems – Narrative Therapy; Michael White – Flashcards

"Exploring meaning by examining taken-for-granted categories and assumptions, making possible newer and more sound construction" (263).

"Personifying problems as external to persons" (263).

"Analysis of literary texts or human experiences, understood as fundamentally ambiguous, by interpreting levels of meaning" (263).

"The usual pessimistic accounts clients bring to therapy, which may help keep them stuck" (263).

"The creation of new and more optimistic accounts of experience" (263).

"Questions that explore how the problem has dominated the client versus how much he or she has been able to control it" (263).

"Knowledge and meaning are shaped by culturally shared assumptions" (263).

"Times when clients acted free of their own problems, even if they were unaware of doing so. Narrative therapists identify unique outcomes as a way to help clients challenge negative views of themselves" (263).