Narrative Therapy By Michael White And Davis Epston

This paper will recount the development and history of narrative therapy and provide a brief background assessment on the founders and significant contributors to the postmodern approach of Narrative Therapy. The role of the therapist, the theory of change, the target of intervention, the assessment from this approach, and what the approach says about normalcy, health, and pathology will be presented. It will also discuss how narrative therapy might work with and be sensitive to the cultural and diversity factors and give some examples of intervention from this approach. It will then discus the case using concepts and ideas from narrative therapy and the application of the essential ideas of the narrative therapy in the case and, where appropriate,

The narrative therapy approach allows the client the freedom to present their story and then to verbally rewrite the story in a more positive, healthy way.

I enjoyed reading your thread. Solution-focused therapy, collaborative therapy, and narrative therapy all play a role in counseling. Counselors utilize these counseling approaches to help clients discover the solutions to their problems. All three approaches have their similarities. The first similarity is that solution-focused therapy, collaborative therapy, and narrative therapy are all social construction models. Social construction models value language and meaning over the behavior of the client (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013). The second similarity is that social constructionist therapists believe their clients know more about their lives than the therapist does (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013). Therapists who follow the social

Narrative therapy is guided by the idea that people’s lives have dominant storylines and people get stuck in problem-saturated stories (Morgan, 2000). When these dominant storylines begin to emerge, individuals will remember events that support the storyline, and forget events that don’t (Kelley, 2011, p. 317). The Brice family’s problem-saturated story when they presented to therapy

This paper will look at the logic of narrative therapy by focusing on 5 major points. This paper will begin by discussing how the narrative approach defines and perceives problems. It will address how narrative therapy views the nature of the relationship between the client and the professional. This paper will look at how problems are solved using the narrative approach. It will also focus on three main techniques used in narrative therapy, which will include externalization, deconstruction and re-authoring. This paper will also include a short narrative critique of the medical model.

Rather than trying to transform or change the person and create a new “desirable” human all together, narrative therapy leans towards the goal of transforming the

Narrative family therapy (NFT) is a postmodern, collaborative therapy approach that characterizes a family’s problem story as only one of many possible narratives (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013, p. 395). David Epston and Michael White founded NFT as a natural outcome of their work in anthropology, social work, and family therapy (Morgan, 2000, p. v). Narrative family therapists adhere to the deconstructionist notion that no absolute truth exists, that people’s narratives are not just about their lives, but are their lives, and that these narratives organize and maintain multiple realities from which to choose (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013, p. 395). This paper briefly describes the narrative approach to family therapy, including conditions needed for change to occur; the main goals of therapy; the therapist’s role; and the narrative view of multiculturalism. A case study illustrating NFT is provided.

Narrative therapy is a social constructive philosophical approach to psychotherapy that has been developed to help clients deconstruct their negative and self-defeating life stories while rebuilding healthy and positive life stories through the use of various techniques. This paper will discuss the leading figures, some concepts and techniques, ethics, some similarities and dissimilarities of other theories compared to Narrative therapy. This paper will also address my personal integration of faith regarding the theory of Narrative therapy.

Narrative Therapy is one of several postmodern therapies that include Solution Focused and Collaborative Therapy. The postmodern lens emphasizes on eliminating the erroneous belief that therapists are experts in their client’s lives and can easily fix problems. As a result, I learned the importance of acknowledging that I am the expert in my life; and that I am the owner of my story. My story is rich in experiences that help me identify my resilience, but this would not be possible without acknowledging the ownership of my story. Resilience is the individual act of recovering from a

This paper is going to look into two models of intervention that Ben and I think might help him cope with things going on in his every day life. The two that we have chosen are Cognitive-behavioral therapy and Narrative therapy. We will look into both of these and also as we do that we will find out what the role of the social worker is in both cases.

Systemic therapy was based on Minuchin’s Structural Therapy model (1968) followed by Bateson's cybernetic model (1972) The first order cybernetic model considerd that problems within a family system should be focused on by strategically solving problems, meeting family goals and help change a person's dysfunctional behaviour. D Shazer (1985). These concepts in Systemic therapy were known as the major paradigms and were taught by therapists such as Minuchin in Milan until the information-processing systems were introduced. They were characterized by the therapist's observation of the system from the external social world. Minuchin S & Fisherman,HC (1981)

Based on influences from Foucault and other scholars, narrative therapy assumes that the stories people tell and the language that they use play a role in their interpersonal and intrapersonal problems (Mattingly, 1998). The stories that cultures tell about such concepts as gender, class and race influence members views on the meaning behind these concepts. Because of external influences, when a client brings up a problem it is not the problem itself that needs to be examined. Instead, the client is being affected by their own framing of the problem. The stories that people tell themselves are shaped by society and can become problematic when a client feels that they no longer have control over their own story (Ross & Shapiro, 2002).

Narrative therapy is one of the post-modern therapies used today. Narrative therapy helps individuals identify their values, skills, and knowledge they have to effectively face problems in their lives. The key ideas of narrative therapy are: people’s stories give meaning to their lives, stories are shaped by emotional themes, a person’s story shapes his/her personality, people seek counseling when their stories do not match their lived experiences, and people who have less social power benefit greatly from Narrative Counseling. The concern is with meaning making and there is an emphasis on mindfulness and positive psychology. The process of Narrative therapy starts in the initial stage exploring the client’s issues. It then transitions into the insight stage to a deeper understanding of the issues. The insight stage is followed by the action stage, where the client and therapist work to change the story and therefore change the outcome. Lastly, there is the termination phase.

Narrative therapy is an emerging psychological technique that has gained considerable popularity since its inception in the 1970s and 1980s. It allows the patient to externalize the problem and when this psychotherapy is applied properly, it endows the patient with a fresh, more productive perspective to apply to their problematic situation (Freedman, Combs, 1996). Narrative therapy assumes a more open model; instead of normalizing one's sensibility, it seeks to simply provide the patient with a new vantage point with which to examine their situation. This paper discusses three techniques that employ the narrative therapy approach, each employing the metaphor of the narrative (or story) as the means with which to treat the patient.

They are involved in the ‘re-authoring’ of identity to identify their client’s values and to identify the skills and knowledge their clients have to implement these values (Morgan, 2000). This process requires the therapist to identify the history of values in a client’s life and so is able to assist in the co-authoring of a new story about the client. A narrative therapist aim is to step out of the tradition of psychological reality of healing someone back to health. In addition their aim is to move the individual forward to grasp wider possibilities for problem resolution as they are masked by dominant self-stories (Payne,