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 book covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, the use of rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is trying to apply narrative ideas in your own work context, this book has been written with you in mind.
Contents:
- A note from the publisher
- PART ONE: WHAT IS NARRATIVE THERAPY?: Introduction
- 1: Understanding and living our lives through stories
- 2: Stories in the therapeutic context
- 3: Externalising conversations: naming the problem
- 4: Tracing the history of the problem
- 5: Exploring the effects of the problem
- 6: Situating the problem in context: deconstruction
- 7: Discovering unique outcomes
- 8: Tracing the history and meaning of the unique outcome and naming the alternative story
- PART TWO – THICKENING THE ALTERNATIVE STORY: Introduction
- 9: Re-membering conversations
- 10: Therapeutic documentation
- 11: Therapeutic letters
- 12: Rituals and celebrations
- 13: Expanding the conversation
- 14: Outside witness groups and definitional ceremonies
- Closing remarks
