The goal of the constructivist view is to focus on the client holistically; looking at background, thoughts, actions, emotions and sensation (Seligman &Reichenberg, 2014).
Concepts
Active Agency-clients are active participants in their lives
Order-clients make meaning of their lives by pursuing order
Self and Identity- focus on having an understanding of self
Social-symbolic process- social interactions help to find order, identity and meaning in life.
Dynamic dialectical development-people have cycles of experience
(Mahoney 2003).
Active Agency-clients are active participants in their lives
Order-clients make meaning of their lives by pursuing order
Self and Identity- focus on having an understanding of self
Social-symbolic process- social interactions help to find order, identity and meaning in life.
Dynamic dialectical development-people have cycles of experience
(Mahoney 2003).
Important Distinctions
Radical Constructivists-reality is different for everyone due to biological structures in the brain
Social Constructivists-reality is created through culture and social interactions
Critical Constructivists-both individual and social processes contribute to formation of reality.
Radical Constructivists-reality is different for everyone due to biological structures in the brain
Social Constructivists-reality is created through culture and social interactions
Critical Constructivists-both individual and social processes contribute to formation of reality.
Approaches and Interventions of constructivist theory
Narrative Therapy- focus on eliciting stories and deconstruction of stories, revisioning, reorganizing to create a new narrative
Feminist Therapy- focus on consciousness raising, gender role analysis, relabeling and reframing, assertiveness training
Solution-Focused therapy- focus on therapeutic alliance, goals, identifying exceptions, solution talk, solution prescriptions
Narrative Therapy- focus on eliciting stories and deconstruction of stories, revisioning, reorganizing to create a new narrative
Feminist Therapy- focus on consciousness raising, gender role analysis, relabeling and reframing, assertiveness training
Solution-Focused therapy- focus on therapeutic alliance, goals, identifying exceptions, solution talk, solution prescriptions