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STUDENT NAME: ________________________________
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COURSE: Counseling psychology umn exam 3
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EXAM CODE: COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUEST
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IONS-101




EXAM INSTRUCTIONS:
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1. Print your full name and date clearly in the header above.
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2. This exam booklet contains both Test Questions (Part I) and Verified Solutions (Part II).
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3. Answer all multiple-choice questions clearly. Double-check your work.
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4. Do not break the seal or open this booklet until instructed to do so by the proctor.
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Q1. What are two major types of postmodern therapies?
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[Verified Solution]: Narrative Therapy and Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
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Q2. What is postmodern therapy's view of human nature? What are postmodern stance/belief
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s?
[Verified Solution]: -The client is the expert -
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Dialogue is used to elicit client experiences and perspectives -
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Questions empower clients and express themselves.
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Q3. What are strengths and critiques of postmodern therapies?
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[Verified Solution]: Strengths: -Empowerment of client (strength-based) -
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draws upon the strength of other approaches -
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social constructionism is congruent with multiculturalism Critiques -few rigorous empirical studies -
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may not be appropriate in some situations (eg. Severe psychopathology, cognitive impairment) -
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Therapist "not knowing" Stance could compromise confidence in the therapist as expert
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Q4. What are the assumptions of narrative therapy?
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[Verified Solution]: -People make meaning out of their lives through the construction of narratives -
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Narrative is a thread that weaves events together forming a story
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, Q5. How do problems develop according to the narrative therapy?
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[Verified Solution]: When narratives are problem-saturated we experience distress -
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Dominant and alternative stories.
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Q6. How does change occur according to the narrative therapy?
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[Verified Solution]: (Dont have to use all) -Client must rewrite their story -
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First identify or name the problem (give problem life if its own) -Separate person from problem -
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Search for expectations to problem -
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Asc clients to speculate what kind of future they could imagine from the competent person that is emer
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ging -create audience to support story
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Q7. What are four techniques of narrative therapy? what is an example for each
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Interviewing the problem (eg. hello (feeling) it seems you seem to have carved a place in (clients name)
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life. What purpose are you serving/what do you hope to do in their life, etc) -Externalizing problem -
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separate person from problem (I am a depressing person-> Depression has made your life difficult) -
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Search for exceptions-dd dd



Unique outcome questions (eg. Describe a time that anger showed up but you resisted) -
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Support new story-Share new story audience, an appreciative audience helps new stories take root.
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Q8. What is the role of the therapist according to the narrative therapy?
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[Verified Solution]: -Demonstrate care, interest, curiosity, empathy, etc -
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Adopt a not knowing position that allows being guided by clients story -
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Help clients construct preferred alternative story -create collaborative relationship
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Q9. What are assumptions of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT)?
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problem itself may not be relevant to finding effective solutions (Past downplayed, present + future hig
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hlighted, solution focused) -People can create their own solutions (Therapists "not-
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knowing" affords client opportunity to construct solution) -Small changes lead to large changes
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Q10. What are techniques of SFBT? You need to be able to provide examples for each
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[Verified Solution]: -Pre- dd dddd



therapy change (what have your done since you made this appointment that has made a difference in th
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e problem?) -Exception questions (Is there a time in your life where the problem did not exist) -
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Miracle questions (If the problem was solved my miracle overnight, what would be different in your lif
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e?) -Scaling questions (on a scale of 0-10, where are you with respect to ___?)
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