Instructions - Case Study Outline Week 7 Case Study: Solution Focused / Narrative 1. Read the following case study. Week 7 Case Study Madison Madison gears up for another day in sixth grade. The trans

Solution -Focused Therapy and Collaborative Therapy • Postmodernism • Social Constructionism • The role of language and language systems • Deconstruction • A move away from hierarchy • Flattening of the therapeutic relationship • Reduction of therapist ’ s “ expert ” status Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 2 Social Construction Models:

Solution -Focused Therapy and Collaborative Therapy • Reality Invented not Discovered • An epistemological shift • Basic Characteristics of Social Constructionist Theories • Egalitarianism in therapeutic relationship • Client as expert • Assumptions about the problem are explored • Goal of helping clients explore new meaning Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 3 Social Construction Models I:

Solution -Focused Therapy and Collaborative Therapy • Solution -Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) • Steve de Shazer & Insoo Berg • Solution Talk • Therapeutic conversations • Miracle questions • Exception -finding questions • Scaling questions Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 4 Social Construction Models I:

Solution -Focused Therapy and Collaborative Therapy • Solution -Oriented Brief Family Therapy • Leading Figures – O ’ Hanlon & Weiner -Davis • Goal -Oriented (as defined by the client) • Resistance not a useful concept • Change is inevitable • Only a small change is necessary • Clients have the strengths and resources necessary to change. Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 5 Social Construction Models:

Solution -Focused Therapy and Collaborative Therapy • Solution -Oriented concepts (cont ’ d) • Problems are unsuccessful attempts to resolve difficulties • In -depth problem knowledge is not required • Multiple perspectives Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 6 Social Construction Models:

Solution -Focused Therapy and Collaborative Therapy • Collaborative Language Systems Approach • Leading Figures – Goolishian, Anderson, & Hoffman. • Problems as stories people have agreed to tell themselves • Hermeneutics Social Construction Models:

Solution -Focused Therapy and Collaborative Therapy • Reflecting Team Approach • Listening -to -Each Other Process • The Democratization of Therapy Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 7 Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 8 Social Construction Models II:

Narrative Therapy • The Narrative Metaphor • We live our lives through the stories we construct • Our lives as multi -storied • The dominant d iscourse or story • Poststructuralism and deconstructionism • Thick and t hin descriptions • Self narratives and cultural narratives Goldenberg/Goldenberg, Family Therapy, 8th edition © Brooks/Cole Cengage 2013 9 Social Construction Models:

Narrative Therapy • Leading Figures - White & Epston • Self and cultural narratives • Oppression and its role in problem development and maintenance • Therapeutic Conversations • Externalizing the problem • Therapeutic questions • Unique outcomes • Co -constructing alternative stories • Therapeutic ceremonies and letters • Forming supportive leagues