| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Means To Therapeutic Ends Michael White, David Epston, 1990-05 Starting from the assumption that people experience emotional problems when the stories of their lives, as they or others have invented them, do not represent the truth, this volume outlines an approach to psychotherapy which encourages patients to take power over their problems. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Playful Approaches to Serious Problems Jennifer C. Freeman, David Epston, Dean Lobovits, 1997 The authors describe their success with narrative therapy, a lighter, playful approach to the serious problems encountered in child and family therapy. They provide case vignettes in the first two sections which show how children who might have been labeled belligerent, hyperactive, anxious, or out of touch with reality are found to be capable of taming their tempers, controlling frustration, and using their imaginations to the fullest. They address the helpful role of family members, as well. The third section of the text offers five extended case stories. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with Children's Imaginative Know-How David Epston, Laurie Markham, David Marsten, 2016-11-08 The remarkable power of connecting with children’s voices and imagination in narrative therapy. Therapists may marvel at children’s imaginative triumphs, but how often do they recognize such talents as vital to the therapy hour? Should therapists reserve a space for make-believe only when nothing is at stake, or might it be precisely those moments when something truly matters that imagination is most urgently needed? This book offers an alternative to therapeutic perspectives that treat children as vulnerable and helpless. It invites readers to consider how the imaginative gifts and knowledge of children, when supported by the therapist and family, can bring about dramatic change. The book begins with an account of the foundations of narrative theory. It explains how such elements as language, characterization, and suspense contribute to the coherence of a story and bring young people into focus. Each subsequent chapter provides specific suggestions for the practice of narrative therapy. Examples of the difficulties children face are offered, along with narrative interventions and tips for overcoming common barriers that can arise along the way. Readers will learn a variety of ready-to-implement strategies, including how to personify problems, compose letters to affirm children’s identities, summon fairies to lend a helping hand, and many more. Sample dialogues between the authors, children, and their parents bring the application of each practice to life, illuminating how even the most stubborn problem can be outwitted, sometimes by mischievous means. With robust professional insight, Narrative Therapy in Wonderland will aid any practitioner in calling on children’s imaginative know-how. How often can a young person be spotted diving headlong into a world of fantasy? This book explores the extraordinary fact that these young people may, upon arrival in Wonderland, be far better equipped to take on even dire challenges than when they remain “up above.” |
| david epston narrative therapy: What is Narrative Therapy? Alice Morgan, 2000 This best-selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy. It uses accessible language, has a concise structure and includes a wide range of practical examples. What Is Narrative Practice? covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is interesting in applying narrative ideas in your own work context, this book was written with you in mind. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Reimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories and Autoethnography Travis Heath, Tom Stone Carlson, David Epston, 2022-06-19 Reimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories and Autoethnography takes a new pedagogical approach to teaching and learning in contemporary narrative therapy, based in autoethnography and storytelling. The individual client stories aim to paint each therapeutic meeting in such detail that the reader will come to feel as though they actually know the two or more people in the room. This approach moves beyond the standard narrative practice of teaching by transcripts and steps into teaching narrative therapy through autoethnography. The intention of these 'teaching tales' is to offer the reader an opportunity to enter into the very 'heart and soul' of narrative therapy practice, much like reading a novel has you enter into the lives of the characters that inhabit it. This work has been used by the authors in MA and PhD level classrooms, workshops, week-long intensive courses, and conferences around the world, where it has received commendations from both newcomer and veteran narrative therapists. The aim of this book is to introduce narrative therapy and the value of integrating autoethnographic methods to students and new clinicians. It can also serve as a useful tool for advanced teachers of narrative practices. In addition, it will appeal to established clinicians who are curious about narrative therapy (who may be looking to add it to their practice), as well as students and scholars of autoethnography and qualitative inquiry and methods. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Re-authoring Teaching Peggy Sax, 2008-01-01 Key phrases: blended learning, insider knowledge, online pedagogy, narrative therapy, postmodern pedagogy, practitioners and consumers, practitioner-training, public practices, reflective practitioner, students’ voices, teaching congruently, teacher-practitioner, therapeutic letters, teaching therapeutic practice. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Experience, Contradiction, Narrative & Imagination David Epston, Michael White, 1992 |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapy in Practice Gerald D. Monk, John Winslade, Kathie Crocket, David Epston, 1996-10-29 How to apply the definitive postmodern therapeutic technique in a variety of situations, including treating alcoholics, counseling students, treating male sexual abuse survivors, and more. Written with scholarship, energy, practicality, and awareness. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Practice: Continuing the Conversations Michael White, 2011-04-04 Final thoughts from the now-deceased leader of narrative therapy. Michael White’s untimely death deprived therapists of a leading light. Here, available for the first time in book form, is a collection of the work he left behind—writings on topics dear to the psychotherapeutic world: turning points in therapy, conversations, resistance and therapist responsibility, couples therapy, and narrative responses to trauma. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Doing Narrative Therapy Jill Freedman, Jill, M. S. W. Freedman, Gene Combs, 1996-03-05 An overview of this branch of psychotherapy through an examination of the historical, philosophical, and ideological aspects, as well as discussion of specific clinical practices and actual case studies. Includes transcripts from therapeutic sessions. The authors work in family therapy in Chicago. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapy and Community Work , 1999 |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapy Catrina Brown, Tod Augusta-Scott, 2006-08-03 This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy. It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems. —PSYCRITIQUES This compilation is an insightful read for practitioners who have not taken the opportunity to use narrative therapy in practice...Experienced practitioners will certainly appreciate the theoretical analysis offered by the writers as well as the opportunity for reflective practice. Narrative Therapy is a meaningful contribution to a Canadian book market lacking in clinical literature for social workers —CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives offers a comprehensive introduction to and critique of narrative therapy and its theories. This edited volume introduces students to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Authors Catrina Brown and Tod Augusta-Scott situate this approach to theory and practice within the context of various feminist, post-modern and critical theories. Through the presentation of case studies, Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives shows how this narrative-oriented theory can be applied in the client-therapist experience. Many important therapeutic situations (abuse, addictions, eating disorders, and more) are addressed from the narrative perspective. Rooted in social constructionism, and emerging initially from family therapy, narrative therapy emphasizes the idea that we live storied lives. Within this approach, the editors and contributors seek to show how we make sense of our lives and experiences by ascribing meaning through stories which themselves arise within social conversations and culturally available discourses. Our stories don’t simply represent us or mirror lived events; they actually constitute us—shaping our lives as well as our relationships. Narrative Therapy will be a valuable supplemental textbook for theory and practice courses in departments of Counseling and Psychotherapy and of Social Work as well as for courses in Gender and Women Studies. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapy Stephen Madigan, 2011 Narrative Therapy provides an introduction to the theory, history, research, and practice of this post-structural approach. First developed by David Epston and Michael White, this therapeutic theory is founded on the idea that people have many interacting narratives that go into making up their sense of who they are, and that the issues they bring to therapy are not restricted to (or located) within the clients themselves, but rather are influenced and shaped by cultural discourses about identity and power. Narrative therapy centers around a rich engagement in re-storying a client's narrative by re-considering, re-appreciating, and re-authoring the client's preferred lives and relationships. In this book, Stephen Madigan presents and explores this versatile and useful approach, its theory, history, therapy process, primary change mechanisms, the empirical basis for its effectiveness, and recent developments that have refined the theory and expanded how it may be practiced. This essential primer, amply illustrated with case examples featuring diverse clients, is perfect for graduate students studying theories of therapy and counseling, as well as for seasoned practitioners interested in understanding how a narrative therapy approach has evolved and how it might be used in their practice. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Biting the Hand that Starves You Richard Linn Maisel, David Epston, Ali Borden, 2004 This important book immediately draws the reader into the world of those struggling with anorexia/bulimia (a/b), whose stories, poems, and first-person accounts expose the 'voice' of these deadly problems. The authors' decade-and-a-half collaboration with 'insiders' has yielded fresh answers to these life and death questions: How does a/b seduce and terrorize girls and women? Why is a/b successful in encouraging girls and women to unwittingly embrace their would-be murderer? How can such a murderer be exposed and thwarted? Biting the Hand that Starves You details a unique way of thinking and speaking about anorexia/bulimia. By having conversations with insiders in which the problem is viewed as an external influence rather than a part of the person, these therapists show how to bring the tactics of a/b into the open, expose its deceptions, break its spell, and encourage defiance of its tyrannical rule. These innovations enable insiders, professionals, and loved ones to unite against anorexia/bulimia rather than allowing a/b to pit a professional or loved one against an insider, and the insider against herself. Coercion is sidestepped in favor of practices that are collaborative, accountable and spirit-nurturing. The groundbreaking discoveries outlined in this book will provide new options, inspiration and hope, not only for those who suffer at anorexia's hands, but also for their loved ones and healthcare professionals. The first section of the book illuminates the means by which anorexia/bulimia insinuates itself into the lives of women and confines them to its prison. The second section focuses on how therapists and other helpers assist them to break the spell of a/b, creating possibilities for resisting and defying it. The third section of the book details a two-pronged strategy for reclaiming one's life from a/b. One method involves unmasking a/b by directly engaging with it through critique. The other method involves disengaging from anorexia in order fashion an 'anti-a/b' lifestyle guided by their own values and passions, even while they fear forsaking the promises of anorexia. Finally, the last section of the book addresses ways in which parents and other loved ones can 'team up' with insiders to fight against these lethal problems. This section includes a first-person account of a mother and father's harrowing but ultimately triumphant effort to free their daughter from anorexia's prison. Biting the Hand that Starves You draws to an unprecedented degree on the anti-anorexic/bulimic knowledge of 'insider' clients/collaborators to provide fresh insights into the workings of a/b and the means to overcome it. The knowledge of these authors and their insider collaborators, who speak poignantly and passionately on their own behalf, is sure to benefit all those affected by a/b. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush, David Epston, 2016-12-01 This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care. In the first chapter, Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia outlines the key concepts that underpin his worldview and work. He then discusses the social, historical, and cultural context of his relationship with Allister Bush, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. The main body of the book comprises chapters that each recount the story of one young person and their family’s experience of Māori healing from three or more points of view: those of the psychiatrist, the Māori healer and the young person and other family members who participated in and experienced the healing. With a foreword by Sir Mason Durie, this book is essential reading for psychologists, social workers, nurses, therapists, psychiatrists, and students interested in bicultural studies. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Down Under and Up Over David Epston, 2008 David Epston continues to be a considerable influence on many UK family therapists/systemic psychotherapists, as well as being one of the two creators of Narrative Therapy, the other being the late Michael White.Part One, Down Under, contains previously published work from different periods of Epston's writing career. As always, each chapter reflects Epston's creativity, and at times those of his co-writers.Part Two, Up Over, contains six examples of Epston's current work, all of which are printed here for the first time, including inventive approaches to chronic bed-wetting, relationships between children and their estranged fathers, court reports, stealing, and sibling conflicts, as well as a long chapter on Anti-Anorexia, a subject close to Epston's heart. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapy Martin Payne, 2006-03-03 Narrative Therapy: An Introduction for Counsellors, second edition, offers a clear and concise overview of this way of working without oversimplifying its theoretical underpinnings and practices. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations NINA JØRRING, June Alexander, David Epston, 2022-03-24 Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations is about helping families with complex psychiatric problems by seeing and meeting the families and the family members, as the best versions of themselves, before we see and address the diagnoses. This book draws on ten years of clinical research and contains stories about helping people, who are heavily burdened with psychiatric illnesses, to find ways to live a life as close as possible to their dreams. The chapters are organized according to ideas, values, and techniques. The book describes family-oriented practices, narrative collaborative practices, narrative psychiatric practices, and narrative agency practices. It also talks about wonderfulness interviewing, mattering practices, public note taking on paper charts, therapeutic letter writing, diagnoses as externalized problems, narrative medicine, and family community meetings. Each chapter includes case studies that illustrate the theory, ethics, and practice, told by Nina Jørring in collaboration with the families and colleagues. The book will be of interest to child and adolescent psychiatrists and all other mental health professionals working with children and families. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents Craig Smith, David Nylund, 2000-03-15 Showcasing approaches as creative and playful as young clients themselves, the book presents therapy as a dialogue of discovery. Through transcripts and compelling case examples, contributors illuminate how drama, art, play, and humor can be used effectively to engage with children of different ages, and to honor their idiosyncratic language, knowledge, and perspective. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Catching Up with David Epston David Epston, 1998 Ever wanted to catch up with David Epston over a cup of tea or coffee and talk through the most significant aspects of his work? If so, this collection of practice-based papers is for you! Written in an engaging and entertaining style, the papers in this book trace the influences in David's recent work and explore in detail his therapeutic consultations. Specific sections address internalising / externalising conversations, celebrating specialness, letter writing, and his approach with so-called anorexia/bulimia. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Maps of Narrative Practice Michael White, 2024-01-09 Michael White, one of the founders of narrative therapy, is back with his first major publication since the seminal Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, which Norton published in 1990. Maps of Narrative Practice provides brand new practical and accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice that White has developed and taught over the years, so that readers may feel confident when utilizing this approach in their practices. The book covers each of the five main areas of narrative practice-re-authoring conversations, remembering conversations, scaffolding conversations, definitional ceremony, externalizing conversations, and rite of passage maps-to provide readers with an explanation of the practical implications, for therapeutic growth, of these conversations. The book is filled with transcripts and commentary, skills training exercises for the reader, and charts that outline the conversations in diagrammatic form. Readers both well-versed in narrative therapy as well as those new to its concepts, will find this fresh statement of purpose and practice essential to their clinical work. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapy Martin Payne, 2000-01-28 Narrative Therapy provides an introduction to the practices of this more effective and less stressed approach. Payne draws on the writing of White and Epston, along with illustrations from his work, to trace the development of narrative therapy.' |
| david epston narrative therapy: Story Re-Visions Alan Parry, Robert E. Doan, 1994-09-09 Once upon a time, everything was understood through stories....The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said that 'if we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how.'...Stories always dealt with the why' questions. The answers they gave did not have to be literally true; they only had to satisfy people's curiosity by providing an answer, less for the mind than for the soul. --From Chapter 1 Each of us has a story to tell that is uniquely personal and profoundly meaningful. The goal of the modern therapist is to help clients probe deeply enough to find their own voice, describe their experiences, and create a narrative in which a life story takes shape and makes sense. Emphasizing the vital connections among personal experience, family, and community, the authors of this provocative new book explore the role of narrative therapy within the context of a postmodern culture. They employ the interactional dynamics of family therapy to demonstrate how to help people deconstruct oppressive and debilitating perspectives, replace them with liberating and legitimizing stories, and develop a framework of meaning and direction for more intentional, more fulfilling lives. Blending scientific theory with literary aesthetics, Story Re-Visions presents a comprehensive collection of specific narrative therapy techniques, inventions, interviewing guidelines, and therapeutic questions. The book examines the development of the postmodern phenomenon, tracing its evolution across time and disciplines. It discusses paradigmatic traditions, the meaning of modernism, and the ways in which the ancient, binding narratives have lost their power to inspire uncritical assent. Methods for doing narrative therapy in a destoried world are presented, with suggestions for meeting the challenges of postmodern value systems and ethical dilemmas. Numerous case examples and dialogues illustrate ways to help people become authors of their own stories, and each of the last four chapters concludes with an appendix that provides additional information for the practicing clinician. Detailing ways in which a narrative framework enhances family therapy, the authors describe how the therapist and client may act together as revisionary editors, and present techniques for keeping the story re-vision alive, well, and in charge. Finally, the book examines re-vision techniques for clinical training and supervision settings, with discussion of how therapists may help one another create stories about their clients, as well as themselves. Accessibly written and profoundly enlightening, Story Re-Visions is ideal for family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and anyone else interested in doing therapy from a narrative stance. It is also valuable as supplemental reading for courses in family therapy and other psychotherapeutic disciplines. |
| david epston narrative therapy: If Problems Talked Jeffrey L. Zimmerman, Victoria C. Dickerson, 1996-08-29 In this unique book, noted family therapists Jeffrey L. Zimmerman and Victoria C. Dickerson explore how clients' problems are defined by personal and cultural narratives, and ways the therapist can assist clients in co-constructing and reauthoring narratives to fit their preferences. The authors share their therapeutic vision through a series of stories, fictionalized discussions, and minidramas, in which problems have a voice. Written in an engaging and personal style, the book challenges many dominant ideas in psychotherapy, inviting the reader to enter a world in which she or he can experience a radically different view of problems, people, and therapy. A wealth of stories told from the clients' point of view illustrate the creative ways they begin to deal with problems: Individuals escape them, couples take their relationships back from problems, kids dump their problems, and teenagers work with their parents to fight their problems. Training and supervision from the perspective of students are also discussed. As entertaining as it is informative, this book will be welcomed by family therapists both novice and experienced, from a range of orientations. Offering a creative and accessible approach to clinical work, it also serves as a supplementary text in courses on family and narrative therapy. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative Therapy with Children and Their Families Michael White, Alice Morgan, 2023-09-20 |
| david epston narrative therapy: Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice Andy Lock, Tom Strong, 2012-04-05 For an endeavour that is largely based on conversation it may seem obvious to suggest that psychotherapy is discursive. After all, therapists and clients primarily use talk, or forms of discourse, to accomplish therapeutic aims. However, talk or discourse has usually been seen as secondary to the actual business of therapy - a necessary conduit for exhanging information between therapist and client, but seldom more. Psychotherapy primarily developed by mapping particular experiential domains in ways responsive to human intervention. Only recently though has the role that discourse plays been recognized as a focus in itself for analysis and intervention. Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice presents an overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along with an account of their conceptual underpinnings. The book starts by setting out the case for a discursive and relational approach to therapy by justaposing it to the tradition that that leads to the diagnostic approach of the DSM-V and medical psychiatry. It then presents a thorough review of a range of innovative discursive methods, each presented by an authority in their respective area. The book shows how discursive therapies can help people construct a better sense of their world, and move beyond the constraints caused by the cultural preconceptions, opinions, and values the client has about the world. The book makes a unique contribution to the philosophy and psychiatry literature in examining both the philosophical bases of discursive therapy, whilst also showing how discursive perspectives can be applied in real therapeutic situations. The book will be of great value and interest to psychotherapists and psychiatrists wishing to understand, explore, and apply these innovative techniques. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy Jay Lebow, Anthony Chambers, Douglas C. Breunlin, 2019-10-08 This authoritative reference assembles prominent international experts from psychology, social work, and counseling to summarize the current state of couple and family therapy knowledge in a clear A-Z format. Its sweeping range of entries covers major concepts, theories, models, approaches, intervention strategies, and prominent contributors associated with couple and family therapy. The Encyclopedia provides family and couple context for treating varied problems and disorders, understanding special client populations, and approaching emerging issues in the field, consolidating this wide array of knowledge into a useful resource for clinicians and therapists across clinical settings, theoretical orientations, and specialties. A sampling of topics included in the Encyclopedia: Acceptance versus behavior change in couple and family therapy Collaborative and dialogic therapy with couples and families Integrative treatment for infidelity Live supervision in couple and family therapy Postmodern approaches in the use of genograms Split alliance in couple and family therapy Transgender couples and families The first comprehensive reference work of its kind, the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy incorporates seven decades of innovative developments in the fields of couple and family therapy into one convenient resource. It is a definitive reference for therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors, whether couple and family therapy is their main field or one of many modalities used in practice. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience David Denborough, 2014-01-06 Powerful ideas from narrative therapy can teach us how to create new life stories and promote change. Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in which we understand and share the stories of our lives therefore make all the difference. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell our stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and ease our sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the ways we live our lives. Drawing on wisdoms from the field of narrative therapy, this book is designed to help people rewrite and retell the stories of their lives. The book invites readers to take a new look at their own stories and to find significance in events often neglected, to find sparkling actions that are often discounted, and to find solutions to problems and predicaments in unexpected places. Readers are introduced to key ideas of narrative practice like the externalizing problems - 'the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem' -and the concept of re-membering one's life. Easy-to-understand examples and exercises demonstrate how these ideas have helped many people overcome intense hardship and will help readers make these techniques their own. The book also outlines practical strategies for reclaiming and celebrating one's experience in the face of specific challenges such as trauma, abuse, personal failure, grief, and aging. Filled with relatable examples, useful exercises, and informative illustrations, Retelling the Stories of Our Lives leads readers on a path to reclaim their past and re-envision their future. |
| david epston narrative therapy: The Narrative Practitioner Laura Beres, 2014-07-04 This book offers a clear and succinct introduction to narrative theory and practice across all professions. It not only describes the basic principles and methods in narrative therapy, but it also provides a genuine bridge from theory to practice, making it the perfect tool for students and practitioners alike. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Solution Focused Narrative Therapy Linda Metcalf, MEd, PhD, LMFT, LPC, 2017-03-01 Introduces a Powerful New Brief Therapy Approach This groundbreaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution-focused and narrative therapies. It harnesses the power of both models—the strengths-based, problem-solving approach of SFT and the value-honoring and re-descriptive approach of Narrative Therapy--to offer brief, effective help to clients that builds on their strengths and abilities to envision and craft preferred outcomes. Authored by a leading trainer, teacher, and practitioner in the field, the book provides an overview of the history of both models and outlines their differences, similarities, limitations and strengths. It then demonstrates how to blend these two approaches in working with such issues as trauma, addictions, grief, relationship issues, family therapy and mood issues. Each concern is illustrated with a case study from practice with individual adults, adolescents, children, and families. Useful client dialogue and forms are included to help the clinician guide clients in practice. Each chapter concludes with a summary describing and reinforcing the principles of the topic and a personal exercise so the reader can experience the approach first hand. Key Features: Describes how two popular postmodern therapy models are combined to create a powerful new therapeutic approach—the first book to do so Includes case studies reflecting the model’s use with individual adults, children, adolescents, and families Provides supporting dialogue and forms for practitioners Authored by a leading figure in SFT and its application in a variety of setting Presents an overview of the history of both models |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narratives of Therapists' Lives Michael White, 2013-09 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...to intervene at a policy level. He did feel that he was getting somewhere with these initiatives, and it wasn't this that he wished to focus on in our conversation. What concerned him most, and what he wanted to explore in our conversations, was that, despite his awareness of the context of the dilemmas he was facing in his work, he couldn't help but feel that he was failing the persons who were consulting him. It was this sense of failure that he believed was contributing most significantly to the despair that he had spoken of at the beginning of our conversation. As we talked, I asked Paul some questions: 'Despair isn't something that persons experience without having had some hope that things would be different. Could we talk about some of the hopes that you have for the lives of others, those hopes that you have experienced being frustrated?' 'You said that many of your agency's recent policy decisions go against what you stand for. Would you talk about some of your values and beliefs that are contradicted by these decisions?' 'In regard to the sense of failure that you have spoken of, could you say something about your appreciation of the possibilities that are available to persons in their lives?' In the conversation that was shaped by these questions, I also asked Paul to assist me to understand the history of these hopes, of these values, and of this understanding of the possibilities available to persons in their lives. In tracing the history of these hopes, values, beliefs, and this commitment to the exploration of the possibilities for persons' lives, among other things he spoke of his aunt's and uncle's contributions: of his aunt's habit of caring about the less fortunate and marginal people in her community, in ways emotional... |
| david epston narrative therapy: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z David Adams Leeming, Kathryn Madden, Stanton Marlan, 2009-10-26 Integrating psychology and religion, this unique encyclopedia offers a rich contribution to the development of human self-understanding. It provides an intellectually rigorous collection of psychological interpretations of the stories, rituals, motifs, symbols, doctrines, dogmas, and experiences of the world’s religious traditions. Easy-to-read, the encyclopedia draws from forty different religions, including modern world religions and older religious movements. It is of particular interest to researchers and professionals in psychology and religion. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Collective Narrative Practice David Denborough, 2008 This book introduces a range of hopeful methodologies to respond to individuals, groups and communities who are experiencing hardship. These approaches are deliberately easy to engage with and can be used with children, young people and adults. The methodologies described include: Collective narrative documents, Enabling contributions through exchanging messages and convening definitional ceremonies, The Tree of Life: responding to vulnerable children, The Team of Life: giving young people a sporting chance, Checklists of social and psychological resistance, Collective narrative timelines, Maps of history, and Songs of sustenance. To illustrate these approaches, stories are shared from Australia, Southern Africa, Israel, Ireland, USA, Palestine, Rwanda and elsewhere. This book also breaks new ground in considering how responding to trauma also involves responding to social issues. How can our work contribute not only to 'healing' but also to 'social movement'? As we work with the stories of people's lives can we contribute to the remaking of folk culture? And is it possible to move beyond the dichotomy of individualism/collectivism? Collective narrative practices are now being engaged with in many different parts of the world. This book invites the reader to engage with these approaches in their own ways. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Intellectual Disabilities Sandra Baum, Henrik Lynggaard, 2018-05-08 The application of systemic ideas and principles in working with people with intellectual disabilities, their families and their service systems, has grown over the last decade in the UK. This book, for the first time, brings together the writings of a group of practitioners who have been using this approach in their clinical practice. It is hoped it will inspire others to try out different ways of working with people with intellectual disabilities and their wider systems, so that they can have the choice of a wide range of therapeutic approaches. It is also hoped that systemic practitioners who are unfamiliar with this client group might give consideration to extend their practice to also work with people with intellectual disabilities. |
| david epston narrative therapy: The Pocket Guide to Therapy Stephen Weatherhead, Graeme Flaherty-Jones, 2011-11-10 Trainees in all mental health professions need basic knowledge of the key therapeutic approaches in counselling and psychotherapy. The Pocket Guide to Therapy is therefore the essential companion, placing specific emphasis on practical application to guide the reader in the ′how to′ of conducting each therapeutic model. Approaches covered include established models such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, narrative therapies such as Systemic Therapy and Solution-Focussed Brief Therapy, and more recent additions to mainstream therapy such as Mindfulness and Narrative Therapy. Each chapter is written by an up-and-coming name in the field of counselling and psychotherapy, offering a unique insight into the challenges and possibilities of training in each model. The book: - includes case examples from a wide range of mental health care settings - is embedded with extensive pedagogy, including worksheets, sample questions and diagrams - highlights the challenges, strengths and weaknesses of each approach - details the background to each model - focuses on the practical application of therapeutic models - discusses evidence-based practice and outcomes Written in language familiar to first-year trainees and using a range of features to enhance learning, this pocket guide is ideal for those embarking on mental health training across counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, health, nursing and social work. It will also serve as a reference point for more experienced readers looking to refresh their understanding of other approaches. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Narrative in Social Work Practice Ann Burack-Weiss, Lynn Sara Lawrence, Lynne Bamat Mijangos, 2017-08-01 Narrative in Social Work Practice features first-person accounts by social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice. Contributors describe innovative and effective interventions with a wide range of individuals, families, and groups facing a variety of life challenges. One author describes a family in crisis when a promising teenage girl suddenly takes to her bed for several years; another brings narrative practice to a Bronx trauma center; and another finds that poetry writing can enrich the lives of people living with dementia. In some chapters, the authors turn narrative techniques inward and use them as vehicles of self-discovery. Settings range from hospitals and clinics to a graduate school and a case management agency. Throughout, Narrative in Social Work Practice showcases the flexibility and appeal of narrative methods and demonstrates how they can be empowering and fulfilling for clients and social workers alike. The differential use of narrative techniques fulfills the mission and core competencies of the social work profession in creative and surprising ways. Stories of clients and workers are, indeed, powerful. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Re-authoring Lives Michael Kingsley White, 1995 Are you looking for hope in your work with people who are considered to have chronic problems? Interested in literature and would like to find ways to express this in your work? Developing ideas for consulting with people who have survived abuse? Conscious of issues of power and want to make your practice more accountable to the people who seek your help? Interested in recent developments in social theory and their implications for practice? Or wanting to work collaboratively with others in the generation of new possibilities for their lives? If so, this book will be of relevance to you. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Uncovering Spiritual Narratives Suzanne M. Coyle, 2014-04-01 All cultures use story as a way to make sense of life experiences. Yet for many, particularly in the western world, only a single story line is seen as the “real truth.” Using narrative therapy as a caregiving approach can help individuals uncover multilayered narratives that are far more complex and liberating. Coyle contends that not only are these more complex narratives more helpful in giving our lives meaning, they also critique the cultural discourses in which they arose. Drawing on both theological approaches and real life experiences, Coyle creates a contextual pastoral theology that helps caregivers find the power of God in people’s stories. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Two Islands and a Boat Donald McMenamin, 2018-05-31 This book is an easy to read yet deceptively challenging introduction to ideas and practices from narrative therapy. Through text and picture, it describes life as a series of journeys from one island to another - as migrations of identity towards what is valued. With clear explanations and helpful illustrations, this book explores how re-writing the stories of our lives can powerfully help us get where we are wanting to go. |
| david epston narrative therapy: Introducing Narrative Therapy Cheryl White, David Denborough, 1998 This anthology contains a diversity of accessible, engaging, practice-based papers by narrative practitioners around the world. Articles include theoretical considerations; working with individuals, groups, and communities; co-research; and an approach to community mental health. The collection is rounded out by a collection of practice notes by Michael White. If you are wanting to understand more about narrative therapy and the different ways in which people are exploring and experimenting with narrative ways of working, this book will inform, challenge, and inspire. |
Narrative Therapy (NT) - Counselling Connection
Narrative Therapy is a therapeutic approach that places emphasis on the clients experience in a central position of importance. It was created in the 1970’s and 80’s by Australian Michael …
Where did it all begin?: Reflecting on the collaborative work of ...
As this special issue of Context neared completion, I was approached by one of its editors (Máire) to reflect on the signifi cance of the connection between Michael White and David Epston and …
RE-IMAGINING NARRATIVE THERAPY:
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Epston. David innovates constantly and has called for the “renewal” of narrative therapy (Epston, 2011), one which remains true to the dual inventors’ dedication to the “spirit of adventure” in …
THE CORNER RE-IMAGINING NARRATIVE THERAPY: A …
RE-IMAGINING NARRATIVE THERAPY: A HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE DAVID EPSTON Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Australia, and PhD program in couple …
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Immerse yourself in this unique year-long apprenticeship in David Epston’s narrative therapy practice. This is the only place in the world where you can learn directly from the co-originator …
Down Under and Up Over – Travels with Narrative Therapy
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The practice of therapeutic letter writing in narrative therapy …
Narrative therapy, developed by Michael White and David Epston (1990), is based on the premise that persons make meaning of their lives through stories. Stories from a narrative therapy …
NARRATIVE THERAPY - THE ADELAIDE PRE-VOCATIONAL …
Narrative therapy views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to change their …
Placing strengths into storylines - Your Story
Could narrative inquiry enliven strengths-based practice through returning stories to strengths? This paper tells the story of the composition of ‘narrative of strengths’ interviews and their use …
Re-imagining narrative therapy: An ecology of magic and …
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An Introduction to Narrative Therapy - George Fox University
First introduced by Australian Michael White and New Zealander David Epston about 20 years ago, narrative therapy is based on the ideas of a wide variety of postmodern thinkers …
A new Innovations column hosted in by Practice David Epston
A new column hosted by David Epston AUTHOR DAviD EpsTOn This column is seeking short pieces of writing from narrative therapists describing micro-innovations within their work. We …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy - Journal of …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy, 2019, Release 3, pp.1-18. www.journalnft.com Re-imagining narrative therapy: An ecology of magic and mystery for the maverick in the age of branding By …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy - Journal of …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy Ideas and Practices in the Making Founding Editor: David Epston Special Release, 2018 Editors: Tom Stone Carlson, Ph.D., David Epston and marcela …
Re-authoring: Some answers to commonly asked questions
David Epston and Michael White introduced the narrative metaphor and the re-authoring metaphor to the therapeutic field (Epston & White 1990; Epston 1992; White 2001a).One of the …
LEARNING NARRATIVE THERAPY BACKWARDS: …
David commented that he hoped that a case story approach to teaching narrative practice might have the effect of sparking the imagination and creativity of the readers so they can learn how …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy: Ideas and Practices in …
papers by David Epston (New Zealand) and Tom Stone Carlson (USA) and one new storied practice paper by Sasha Pilkington (New Zealand). The three innovative papers highlight the …
Family Therapy - dulwichcentre.com.au
David Epston David Epston is one of the co-founders of narrative therapy and is widely respected for his innovative and creative work. He has introduced to the field of family therapy a range of …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy - Journal of …
In this inaugural issue of JNFT, we are excited to introduce readers to three new innovative papers by David Epston (New Zealand) and Tom Stone Carlson (USA) and one new storied …
Narrative Therapy (NT) - Counselling Connection
Narrative Therapy is a therapeutic approach that places emphasis on the clients experience in a central position of importance. It was created in the 1970’s and 80’s by Australian Michael …
Where did it all begin?: Reflecting on the collaborative work of ...
As this special issue of Context neared completion, I was approached by one of its editors (Máire) to reflect on the signifi cance of the connection between Michael White and David Epston and …
RE-IMAGINING NARRATIVE THERAPY:
RE-IMAGINING NARRATIVE THERAPY: AN ECOLOGY OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY FOR THE MAVERICK IN THE AGE OF BRANDING David Epston Building on the Legacy of Michael …
LEARNING HOW TO COUNTER-STORY IN NARRATIVE …
Epston. David innovates constantly and has called for the “renewal” of narrative therapy (Epston, 2011), one which remains true to the dual inventors’ dedication to the “spirit of adventure” in …
THE CORNER RE-IMAGINING NARRATIVE THERAPY: A …
RE-IMAGINING NARRATIVE THERAPY: A HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE DAVID EPSTON Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Australia, and PhD program in couple …
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy Founding Editor: …
Immerse yourself in this unique year-long apprenticeship in David Epston’s narrative therapy practice. This is the only place in the world where you can learn directly from the co-originator …
Down Under and Up Over – Travels with Narrative Therapy
David Epston: Down Under and Up Over: Travels with Narrative Therapy Contents Introduction (Barry Bowen) 7 Down Under 1 In memory of Hatu (Hayden) Barlow (1973-1985) 15 (David …
The practice of therapeutic letter writing in narrative therapy …
Narrative therapy, developed by Michael White and David Epston (1990), is based on the premise that persons make meaning of their lives through stories. Stories from a narrative therapy …
NARRATIVE THERAPY - THE ADELAIDE PRE-VOCATIONAL …
Narrative therapy views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to change their …
Placing strengths into storylines - Your Story
Could narrative inquiry enliven strengths-based practice through returning stories to strengths? This paper tells the story of the composition of ‘narrative of strengths’ interviews and their use …
Re-imagining narrative therapy: An ecology of magic and …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy, 2019, Release 3, pp.1-18. www.journalnft.com Re-imagining narrative therapy: An ecology of magic and mystery for the maverick in the age of branding By …
An Introduction to Narrative Therapy - George Fox University
First introduced by Australian Michael White and New Zealander David Epston about 20 years ago, narrative therapy is based on the ideas of a wide variety of postmodern thinkers …
A new Innovations column hosted in by Practice David Epston
A new column hosted by David Epston AUTHOR DAviD EpsTOn This column is seeking short pieces of writing from narrative therapists describing micro-innovations within their work. We …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy - Journal of …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy, 2019, Release 3, pp.1-18. www.journalnft.com Re-imagining narrative therapy: An ecology of magic and mystery for the maverick in the age of branding By …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy - Journal of …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy Ideas and Practices in the Making Founding Editor: David Epston Special Release, 2018 Editors: Tom Stone Carlson, Ph.D., David Epston and marcela …
Re-authoring: Some answers to commonly asked questions
David Epston and Michael White introduced the narrative metaphor and the re-authoring metaphor to the therapeutic field (Epston & White 1990; Epston 1992; White 2001a).One of …
LEARNING NARRATIVE THERAPY BACKWARDS: …
David commented that he hoped that a case story approach to teaching narrative practice might have the effect of sparking the imagination and creativity of the readers so they can learn how …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy: Ideas and Practices in …
papers by David Epston (New Zealand) and Tom Stone Carlson (USA) and one new storied practice paper by Sasha Pilkington (New Zealand). The three innovative papers highlight the …
Family Therapy - dulwichcentre.com.au
David Epston David Epston is one of the co-founders of narrative therapy and is widely respected for his innovative and creative work. He has introduced to the field of family therapy a range of …
Journal of Narrative Family Therapy - Journal of …
In this inaugural issue of JNFT, we are excited to introduce readers to three new innovative papers by David Epston (New Zealand) and Tom Stone Carlson (USA) and one new storied …
