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Therapeutic Letters

Allows NT to extend conversations, invite reluctant family members in, summarize sessions as well as reflect on past sessions and experiences.

Summary letters

Letters of Invitation

Redundancy letters

Letters of prediction

Narrative Therapy

Definitional Ceremonies

Enûma Eliš

Providing clients the opportunity to tell the story of their lives to outside audiences

-The nonjudgmental audience can then reflect back

-Audience may be friends, family, therapists, or community members

Forming Supportive Leagues

Through shared experiences clients can build

upon each others skills to defeat the problem

Seeking Unique Outcomes

Listen for unique descriptions of events or experiences that do not fit the problematic story

These are entryways into reauthoring conversations

We have Evolved as Story Tellers

Stories about creation

Stories about nature

We tell stories about our Tribe

Therapeutic Conversations

Employing Therapeutic Questions

Explore the influence and operations of the problem

Cultural Narratives

Questioning is directed at what the person is experiencing and how the problem is being experienced.

What-"What is Self-Consciousness trying to talk you into about yourself?

How-“How does Self-Consciousness affect you socially?"

-Externalize the problem

-NO time is devoted to discovering family patterns or exploring family dynamics etc.

-Reframe the problem from internal to external

-Empower by offering opportunity to construct a new narrative

-Unravel the History of the problem

-Reconstruct an alternate story

-Impact the everyday lives of individuals

-Language holds power

-See client's through a political lens

-Consider forms of oppression

-Therapists discover how cultural narrative has impacted their self narratives

Recent Research

-Tension between research and the model

-Research often done as a reflective practice to learn more about the theory and how it operationalizes and refine practice

Usefulness found in walk-in clinics, therapy with past trauma, addiction therapy, therapy with men who evidenced abusive behavior, elders struggling with memory loss

A Therapeutic Philosophy

Therapists liberate the client from hopelessness by helping that person recognize the previously subjugated plots and subplots of their life

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy Involves:

-Respect

-Non-blaming Conversation

-Clients are Experts on their own Lives

New Narratives= New Meaning

Poststructualism

Deconstruction

"Poststructural thought rejects the structuralist notion that there is a deep structure to all phenomena and that its complexity can be broken down to its elements"

Examining (re-examining) texts to find new layers of meaning and ultimately to find there is no single meaning

Leading Figures

SUMMARY

Selfish

Bad

Thick Descriptions

Thin Descriptions

Greedy

Lazy

Michael White

- Social worker

-Rejected cybernetic thinking in favor of narrative metaphor

-Influenced by feminist thought of his wife

Want to “liberate people from oppressive culturally dominated, problem-saturated stories and empowering them to reauthor their lives to develop more rewarding dominant stories and lead more fulfilling lives

Narrative therapists do not help clients replace stories, but to enrich, them by viewing them non-dualistically.

Superficial, insubstantial descriptors of internal states such as normal/abnormal

Comprehensive Understanding of the Person comes from telling and re-telling the story of their history and identity

Often imposed by others (teacher, doctors, parents, clergy and established as truth

These end up being generalizations that involve labeling

Enriched, Intentional, and Multistoried

-Focus on helping clients gain access to preferred storylines about their lives.

-Therapist is influential but decentered

-Based on poststructural thinking that challenges the need for underlying truths by deconstructing old truths replacing them with multi-storied narratives

-The client is not the problem, the problem is the problem

-Ceremonies, letters and leagues can help authenticate the new story

"I believe we must become great storytellers"

Presented By: Brandon Bishop, Maryanne Kaboi and Monika Leininger

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