Postmodern Approaches

Solution-focused Brief Therapy

Narrative Therapy

Basic Assumptions Guiding Practice

Therapeutic Process

Therapeutic Relationship

Techniques

Narrative Therapy

Therapeutic Process

 

Therapeutic techniques

Questions - Questions are structured to empower client, to seach for "differences that make a difference"

Externalization and Deconstruction - view the problem as the problem, not the person. Externalization one way of deconstructing the power of a narrative and separating the person from identifying with it.

1. map influence on person's life

2. map influence of person's life on problem