Narrative therapy was developed by a number of people including Michael White and David Epston. Narrative therapy assumes that everyone has stories about themselves that determine how they view themselves‚ their situation‚ and their world. These stories are instrumental in the approach a person takes to living. The role of the narrative therapist is to hear the stories that people bring in with them‚ to investigate the role of the problem and its effects‚ to be curious about the times a person has
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Ethical Issues for the Integration of Religion and Spirituality in Therapy Abstract Religion plays an important role in the lives of many people‚ and in such cases‚ religious principles and beliefs influence all aspects of their lives. With the increasing interest in spirituality in the community‚ the intersection of psychological services‚ religion and spirituality is likely to be a growth area in psychology (Plante‚ 2007). However‚ working with clients around religion and spirituality issues
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Title Jensen‚ P 2011‚ ’Why should psychiatrists learn about narrative therapy?’‚ Australian and New Zealand Journal Of Psychiatry‚ vol. 45‚ no.9‚ pp. 709-711. Retrieved June 10‚ 2013‚ from SAGE Premier 2013. Topic This article promotes the addition of Narrative Therapy (NT) to psychiatric practices as tool to help stabilize patients as they begin treatment. Jensen‚ a clinical physiatrist‚ raises awareness of this psychotherapy to other psychiatrists in belief that it creates a respectful
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This paper will evaluate the effectiveness of Brief Narrative Therapy in treating abused women who are in shelters. In addition to living with violence‚ many women who seek shelter have been living in poverty‚ dependent on humanitarian aid‚ and suffering from trauma. Being abused undermines virtually every aspect of a woman’s life; her physical as well as her mental health. Psychiatric effects may include depression‚ suicidal thoughts‚ dissociation‚ Post Traumatic Stress Disorder‚ eating disorders
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weaknesses of narrative therapy is that the focus on externalizing problems allows avoidance of deeper issues (Rasheed‚ Rasheed‚ & Marley‚ 2011‚ p. 322). In the case of the Michael’s family‚ this should not be as much of a problem. Due to the fact that the Michael’s were referred for grief counseling and the children are showing signs of grief and trauma‚ the concerns of not addressing deeper issues does not apply to the aspects of grief therapy. It may still apply to some of the aspects of therapy relating
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For its time‚ narrative therapy was considered radical and unlike past therapies used. The major contributors‚ Michael White and David Epston‚ put aside the main idea and view of the preceding and dominate psychological theories and focused on the person’s story. Both White and Epston were influenced by French post-structural philosopher Michel Foucault. His ideas were largely based on existentialism‚ which gave worth to a person’s own experience. Narrative therapy became a tool to help people
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The Multicultural Effectiveness of Narrative Therapy Liberty University HSER 509 Dr. M. E. Cooper July 05‚ 2013 Abstract One of the most difficult situations that face counselors and their clients is the daunting task of listening with understanding while removing bias from the counselors thought process. The wall of bias and not understanding creates fear for those seeking help from the counseling institution. While there are many different counseling techniques available to the counselor
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Narrative Therapy Caroline Dobay August 9‚ 2012 COUN601 Steve Figley PhD Movement of Influence Narrative Therapy came from the Poststructural and Deconstruction movement (Hoffman‚ 2002) and asserts that people need other stories to be able to view their lives and to recognize the negativity in their stories is dominating and defining their lives and who they are. This defines a self-defeating‚ negative and dead-ended story of their lives. This is through the knowledge of the reality told
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Narrative Therapy Michael White and David Epston are the originators of what has come to be known as narrative therapy. Narrative therapy is a simple way‚ accentuating the main ideas A respectful‚ non-pathologizing and non-blaming approach in working with people‚ separating people from the problem. ’The person is never the problem; the problem is the problem’ and enables them to recognize their skills‚ resources‚ and Values that move it in life‚ to broaden and enrich the look on his / her history
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Solution-focused therapy and narrative therapy are both utilized in counseling. They are both social construction models. They both serve a purpose in counseling‚ which is to help client’s change the way they think‚ not how they behave (Goldenberg & Goldenberg‚ 2013). Although solution-focused therapy and narrative therapy are social construction models‚ there are major differences between the two approaches. The first difference between the two approaches is that solution-focused therapy is question-oriented
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