weaknesses of narrative therapy is that the focus on externalizing problems allows avoidance of deeper issues (Rasheed‚ Rasheed‚ & Marley‚ 2011‚ p. 322). In the case of the Michael’s family‚ this should not be as much of a problem. Due to the fact that the Michael’s were referred for grief counseling and the children are showing signs of grief and trauma‚ the concerns of not addressing deeper issues does not apply to the aspects of grief therapy. It may still apply to some of the aspects of therapy relating
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"I don’t understand how you call yourself a feminist despite being raised by a Hispanic mother. Is Latina feminism even a thing?" my aunt asked. I understood where she was coming from because as a Hispanic woman‚ my mother subdued and was determined to pass on the traditional roles of women to her daughters. During my childhood‚ I was expected to fulfill “womanly” duties and responsibilities. Many of those duties were domestic: I had to serve both of my brothers food every day --myself last
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would be solution-focused along with person centered. While initial rapport has been built‚ the student is distrusting of White people‚ thus‚ through a person-centered framework it is essential for the counselor‚ as a White person‚ to continue to build rapport and the counseling relationship. The person-centered approach will support rapport building because of its non-directive nature and essential use of communication skills (Henderson & Thompson‚ 2011). Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) strategies
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I. Introduction a. Solution-focused therapy believes that by focusing on how things are‚ we perceive how language is used in daily life. Language games is the idea that the meaning of words are not inherent but are learned from context in life. When the inner processes are hidden from oneself and is unknown this is called the private language proposition. Assessing the private language proposition is done with help of scaling questions and relationship questions; this is because private knowledge
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Abbie Alexander Profession Feminist Theory September 26‚ 2015 The Importance of Personal Narratives Personal Narratives carry more authority than scholarly studies‚ because they are the voices of women varying in color‚ ethnicity‚ nationality‚ religion‚ and cultural background. The feminist movement operates on the assumption that experiences of upper-middle class white women represent a universal female identity. In order for the feminist movement to gain traction‚ we must recognize the systemic
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effectively with a family-based treatment. (Gladding‚ 2015). According to Gladding (2015)‚ some of the most effective approaches in treating substance-related disorders in families are structural-strategic‚ Bowen‚ behavioral‚ Adlerian and multifamily therapy. The behavior of substance abusers or dependents of substance might have difference interacting with others‚ whom they come in contact with (Gladding‚ 2015). Substance abuse effects the entire family. The parent who grown up in a substance abuse home
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Narrative Therapy Caroline Dobay August 9‚ 2012 COUN601 Steve Figley PhD Movement of Influence Narrative Therapy came from the Poststructural and Deconstruction movement (Hoffman‚ 2002) and asserts that people need other stories to be able to view their lives and to recognize the negativity in their stories is dominating and defining their lives and who they are. This defines a self-defeating‚ negative and dead-ended story of their lives. This is through the knowledge of the reality told
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg and their colleagues beginning in the late 1970’s in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. The entire solution-focused approach was developed inductively in an inner city outpatient mental health service setting in which clients were accepted without previous screening (Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy‚ n.d.). The developers of SFBT spent hundreds of hours observing therapy sessions over the course of several years‚ carefully
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The Multicultural Effectiveness of Narrative Therapy Liberty University HSER 509 Dr. M. E. Cooper July 05‚ 2013 Abstract One of the most difficult situations that face counselors and their clients is the daunting task of listening with understanding while removing bias from the counselors thought process. The wall of bias and not understanding creates fear for those seeking help from the counseling institution. While there are many different counseling techniques available to the counselor
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For its time‚ narrative therapy was considered radical and unlike past therapies used. The major contributors‚ Michael White and David Epston‚ put aside the main idea and view of the preceding and dominate psychological theories and focused on the person’s story. Both White and Epston were influenced by French post-structural philosopher Michel Foucault. His ideas were largely based on existentialism‚ which gave worth to a person’s own experience. Narrative therapy became a tool to help people
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