This informative, challenging and inspiring book consists of a diversity of accessible, engaging, practice-based papers, which all received enthusiastic feedback when they were first published. If you are a therapist, community worker or anybody else who is wanting to understand more about the different ways in which people are exploring and experimenting with narrative ways of working, then this book has been created with you in mind. Contents: Introduction
Part I: Introducing the Ideas
Companions on a journey:
The work of the Dulwich Centre Community Mental Health Project
Saying hullo again:
The incorporation of the lost relationship in the resolution of grief
By Michael White
Part II: Working with Individuals
Conversations of ability
by Alice Morgan
Her-story in the making:
Therapy with women who were sexually abused in childhood
by Amanda Kamsler
Sarah-Jane’s story
by Loretta Perry
Part III: Working with Groups
Busting Out- Breaking Free: A group program for young women wanting to reclaim their lives from anorexia nervosa
by Marilyn Kraner and Kate Ingram
The Journey: A narrative approach to adventure-based therapy
by Aileen Cheshire and Dorothea Lewis
Part IV: Working with Communities
Pang’ono pang’ono ndi mtolo: little by little we make a bundle
The work of the CARE counsellors & Yvonne Sliep
Introducing ‘sugar’
by Barb Wingard
Grief: Remember, reflect, reveal
by Barb Wingard
Part V: Co-research
How we learnt that scratching can really be self-abuse:
Co-research with young people
by Sharon Nosworthy & Kerry Lane
Caucusing as communication
by Sharon Nosworthy & Kerry Lane
Part VI: Power to our Journeys
Power to our journeys
by Brigitte, Sue, Mem & Veronika
Part VII: Some notes by Michael White
Notes on externalizing problems
Notes on narrative metaphor and narrative therapy
Notes on power and the culture of therapy |
