Collaborative

Question 1

Assumptions

Answer 1

Clients are not heard because the therapist is doing therapy to them not with them

Question 2

How Symptoms Develop

Answer 2

• Created through language.
• These are stories that people have agreed to tell themselves.
• Not fixed entities.
• Important Social Utility the stories play in explaining one’s life
• Symptoms create the system.

Question 3

Goals of Therapy

Answer 3

To dissolve problems in conversation by co creating stories that open up new possibilities.
-Established by client.

Question 4

Role of Therapist

Answer 4

1. Not narrative editor of client story, but in language with client as learner.
   Therapist taught by client who is in-the-know.

Question 5

Process

Answer 5

Emphasis on careful dialoging about the problem.

• Therapist begins without any idea about what should or should not change.
• Therapy is reconstructive, intending to free client from particular self-account and open way for adopting alternative accounts.

Question 6

Interventions

Answer 6

Use of team behind the mirror.

• Creation of as if team:
• -Client chooses 1 team member to listen as client’s mother and another as client’s husband.