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Keep Yourself Alive Narrative Therapy

Keep Yourself Alive Narrative Therapy. Definition of Narrative Therapy. A way of interpreting life and its meaning through the examination of the stories about the life of the individual

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Keep Yourself Alive Narrative Therapy

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  1. Keep Yourself Alive Narrative Therapy

  2. Definition of Narrative Therapy • A way of interpreting life and its meaning through the examination of the stories about the life of the individual • A description of the life experiences that continually shape our lives, the decisions we make and the actions we take

  3. Tools of Narrative Therapy • Externalisation • Mapping the problem • Deconstruction • Reauthoring

  4. Why Externalise? • Separates person from problem • Disempowers the problem • Decreases guilt and blame • Opens pathways for action • Promotes cooperative effort • Objectifies or personifies the problem

  5. How to Externalise? • Give the problem a persona • Translate verbs to nouns • Use the client/patient’s own words • List the problems externalised • Describe how the persona dictates the client/patient’s actions and feelings

  6. Mapping the Problem • Understand the power of the dominant story (DS) • Understand the meaning of the DS • Understand the impact of the DS • Expose what supports the DS • Explore the experience of the DS

  7. How to Map the DS • Continue to externalise • Use the investigative journalist approach • Search for ways in which the problem has affected the person: home, work, relationships etc. Go slowly !

  8. Deconstruction • Occurs throughout the externalising process • Explores recruitment into the DS and problem • Explores the assumptions (cf CBT) • Asks if the DS is the preferred way of living • Evaluates and justifies the DS

  9. Reauthoring • Finds the contradictions to the DS • Finds the exceptions to the DS and the problem (cf BFT)

  10. Reauthoring - The Exception • Landscape of action - What did you do that was different that time? • Landscape of consciousness - What do those experiences tell you about yourself? • Use supportive others to discover the true person - Encourage others to join in the process of supporting the alternative story

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