Modernism/Postmodernism
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 modernism | The goal is to discover, map, and know the objective truth of the world of human behavior, consistent with traditional empirical science. |
| modernism | Professionals become social engineers who have the knowledge and the technology available to produce needed/valued individuals, marriages, families. |
| postmodernism | Therapy is likely to resemble a conversation or a recursive dance between therapist and client. |
| modernism | May be seen in the search for characteristics of healthy and unhealthy families; and, in this type of family therapy, according to which families are assumed to have universal patterns of organization. |
| postmodernism | The possibility of direct access to experience or direct expression of experience is questioned. |
| modernism | Armed with expert knowledge, the therapist takes charge of and sets the goals for therapy. The therapist is the coach, choreographer and director, and the goals for therapy are dictated by the therapist's theory. |
| modernism | The therapist treats the "real" problem, the underlying structural flaw that is built into the system and which necessarily gives the system rise to symptomatology. |
| postmodernism | Totalizing discourses are critiqued with an eye to what they omit, obscure, and express relative to power relations. |
| modernism | The therapist is the expert because she or he bases her or his work on the "knowledge" derived from science. |
| modernism | The position as expert gives the therapist privileged access to what is "really" going on below or beyond the family's articulation of their predicament, the latter being consigned to the status of symptoms or raw material to be diagnosed or transformed. |
| modernism | Therapist is the agent of change. |
| postmodernism | Suspicious of the search for ultimate truths and the concomitant delineation of universal theories. |
| postmodernism | Focus on the historical and value contexts within which theories evolve and outside of which no valid knowledge claims may be made. |
| postmodernism | Language is viewed as mediating or even constituting reality rather than reflecting or representing reality. |
| modernism | Science based metaphors and the world and people as machines dominate the themes of this tradition. |
| postmodernism | Therapy as science is replaced by the idea of therapy as conversation, as a collaborative process. |
| postmodernism | Family therapists can be characterized as participant-observers in the sense of second-order cybernetics. |
| modernism | Worldview is that of normative social science and the mental health practice sequence of observation (from a position outside the person or system), diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment. |
| postmodernism | Family therapists are constructionists who view therapy as a collaborative process between the therapist and the client. |
| postmodernism | The therapist participates with the client in deconstruction the universal truth story the client brings to therapy and collaborates with the client in constructing a new story that solves problems the presenting story did not. |
| modernism | Language represent reality. |
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