PSY3120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Insoo Kim Berg, Steve De Shazer, Narrative Therapy
29 Oct 2018
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In social constructionism the therapist disavows the role of expert, preferring a more collaborative or consultative stance. Clients are viewed as the experts about their own lives: the collaborative partnership is considered more important than assessment or technique. Historical glimpse of social constructionism: among the best-known postmodern perspectives on therapy practice are the collaborative language systems approach, solution-focused brief therapy, solution-oriented therapy, narrative therapy and feminist therapy. Solution-focused brief therapy (sfbt) is a future focused, goal-oriented therapeutic approach to brief therapy: developed by steve de shazer and insoo kim berg. It emphasises strengths and resilience"s of people by focusing on exceptions to their problems and their conceptualised solutions. Sfbt is an optimistic, anti deterministic, future-oriented approach based on the assumption that clients have the ability to change quickly and create a problem-free language as they strive for a new reality.
