Postmodern Therapy
social constructionism - Answer Is a psychological expression of this
postmodern worldview; it values the client's reality without disputing
whether it is accurate or rational.
Our knowledge about realities is: - Answer Socially constructed.
Ie - a person is depressed when she adopts a definition of self as depressed.
Without the cultural conditions that accept the concept of depression, talking
about a person with depression would mean nothing.
In postmodern thinking, forms of language and the use of language in stories
create: - Answer Meaning
The postmodern view incorporates: - Answer - reality is based on the use of
language
- reality is socially constructed
- each individual experiences their own unique reality
- (NOT reality is objectively defined)
In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of
therapy is: - Answer the collaborative therapeutic relationship.
Social constructionism explains how values are transmitted through
language by the social milieu and suggests that individuals are constantly
changing with the ebb and flow of the influences of all of the following: -
Answer - Family
- Culture
- Society
- (NOT behavior)
From a social constructionist perspective, change begins with: - Answer
deconstructing the power of cultural narratives (and then proceed to the
construction of a new life of meaning)
Of the following, what is an interest that social constructionists tend to
share? - Answer generating new meaning in the lives of individuals
