Narrative Therapy Flashcards
Who developed Narrative Therapy?
White
What are the four premises of Narrative Therapy?
Life is storied
Stories are socially constructed
Stories give meaning but are partial
Stories are constitutive (create reality)
What are the 6 stages of Narrative Therapy?
Mutual influence Naming the problem story Externalisation Naming the preferred story Deconstructing the preferred story Thickening the preferred story
What is Mutual Influence in Narrative Therapy?
The client describes their problem, its impact on their life and what exceptions there are. How do the client and the problem mutually influence each other.
What is the Naming the Problem Story in Narrative Therapy?
Eliciting a name for the problem story, the name should come from and reflect the experience of the client.
What is Externalisation in Narrative Therapy?
Casting any quality that is internal to a person as external.
What is the Preferred Story in Narrative Therapy?
What the client would like to happen and to be true.
How is the Preferred Story developed in Narrative Therapy?
By weaving the exceptions given, which may begin as traces, to create a new story.
How can a Preferred Story be thickened?
Finding historical antecedents and linking it to intentions, values, commitments and hopes.
To what do you link traces in order to develop and Preferred Story?
Intentions
Values
Commitments
Hopes
What is an outsider witness?
Someone brought into Narrative Therapy to act almost as a reflecting team.
What questions is the outsider witness asked?
Of all the things you’ve heard, what struck you?
Why do you think that was striking to you?
When you heard that, what did you think or what image did it create?
Having heard that, what difference will it make to you?
Of what is the Landscape of Identity created?
Commitments Principles Hopes Values Intentions
What is the process of change in Narrative Therapy?
The client ceases to be the problem and instead develops a relationship with it. This allows the problem-saturated story to be altered (and thinned) while thickening the Preferred Story.
How do you develop a statement of position towards while externalising in Narrative Therapy?
Negotiate an idiosyncratic experience
Mapping of the effects and influences of the problem (on all areas of client’s life)
Evaluating the effect of this
Justifying your evaluation
