Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives offers a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Influenced by feminist, postmodern, and critical theory, this edited volume illustrates how we make sense of our lives and experiences by ascribing meaning through stories that arise within social conversations and culturally available discourses.
For psychotherapy students, teachers, and practitioners, this book describes the clinical application of the growing body of ideas and practices that has come to be known as narrative therapy.
This best selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy with accessible language, a concise structure and a wide range of practical examples. This...
For any therapist working in the area of Narrative Therapy, and for any interested in the emerging understandings that science is bringing to appreciating how our brains develop with and among each other, this book has something to offer.
The sheet was developed by the author (Metcalf, 2008) for Response to Intervention (RTI) meetings, using a solution focused approach. It paves the way for a solution focused narrative conversation and helps teachers to be aware of what ...
This book offers an alternative to therapeutic perspectives that treat children as vulnerable and helpless.
This book sets out a framework for practice that provides a new approach to working with families, couples and individuals.
Batterer intervention programs: The past, and future prospects. in M. shepard & e. Pence (eds.), Coordinating community responses to domestic violence (pp. 127–150). Thousand oaks, CA: sage. Milewski-Hertlein, k. A. (2001).
Gergen and kaye (1992) explained: This involves a reconception of the relativity of meaning, an acceptance of indeterminacy, the generative exploration of the multiplicity of meanings, and the understanding that there is no necessity ...
Case Dialogue Example The following extreme example is offered : CLIENT : I don't want to be here . ... Perhaps if we just forgot about the notion of doing therapy . . . would you rather drive down to McDonald's and have a Coke ?
The book also includes information on: Using externalizing conversations to move the client’s focus away from self-attack, recrimination, blame, and judgment, all of which work against productive and positive therapeutic outcomes ...