PSY BEH 155C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Narrative Therapy, Scientific Method, Cognitive Therapy
31 Jul 2018
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Stories people create to make sense of their experiences: people in power determine what is pathological, objective truth is unknowable, so it should not be pursued. Language creates reality: pattern of attention, sense of possibility, self-concept, and behavior. Constructivism: story: any organized description of experience. Assessment: no value in diagnosis, it is a label that is socially constructed and irrelevant to constructing solutions, no standardized assessment, want clear, concrete description of problem (no theories or explanations), then focus on solutions. Interested in the way people talk and organize stories. Two types of constructionist therapies: solution-focused therapy, narrative therapy, same constructionist theory, slightly different approach, both stress the importance of language. Language is the problem before therapy, and the solution in therapy. Things are exactly how you want them to be. Narrative therapy: narrative therapy involves adding new meanings and themes to narratives, so they become richer and.
