Peer-reviewed papers (2025:1)

Read more about the article Clinical record-keeping, narrative documents and chronic illness: When “fat files” tell thin stories about experiences in healthcare — Rewa Murphy
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2025 / 2025: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Peer-reviewed papers (2025:1)

Clinical record-keeping, narrative documents and chronic illness: When “fat files” tell thin stories about experiences in healthcare — Rewa Murphy

The extensive medical records of young people living with chronic illnesses can tell a thin story about the experiences and humanity of the person they supposedly represent. Through the story of a narrative document developed with a client, and the responses of others I shared it with, this article explores the skills and knowledges of young people navigating mental health systems while also dealing with chronic illness. From a poststructuralist perspective, the paper considers the effects of what one young person called “fat files” on how clients are “known” in clinical spaces, with implications for how professionals engage in notetaking.

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March 14, 2025
Read more about the article Let’s hear what the experts say: Narrative co-research with young people resisting the gaze of success — Angela On Kee Tsun
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2025 / 2025: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Peer-reviewed papers (2025:1)

Let’s hear what the experts say: Narrative co-research with young people resisting the gaze of success — Angela On Kee Tsun

This paper documents a co-research journey with three young people who had been labelled as “socially isolated” and “underachievers”. I introduce narrative ideas such as externalising the problem and its effects, exploring the absent but implicit, re-authoring and investigating the cultural context of how success is constructed in Chinese cultures. I describe the co-research methodology we used and the development of five themes; namely, the young people’s views of the problem, their descriptions of the problem and its effects, the strategies they used against the problem and its effects, what they held to be important, and how the results of our co-research were extended to inform future plans and actions. After sharing the voices of the three young persons, I reflect on lessons from this co-research process.

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March 14, 2025
Read more about the article Spiritual care chaplaincy as joining with people in the “betwixt and between” and beyond: Meegan’s story with a big-ass mirror — Jesse Size
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2025 / 2025: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Peer-reviewed papers (2025:1)

Spiritual care chaplaincy as joining with people in the “betwixt and between” and beyond: Meegan’s story with a big-ass mirror — Jesse Size

Spiritual care in a hospital setting regularly involves joining with people in the “betwixt and between” of life. This paper considers Michael White’s (2016) rite of passage metaphor and the way that it supports double-story development by acknowledging the difficulties people experience while also recognising that a hospital admission can include the possibility that one might arrive at a new place.

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March 14, 2025
Read more about the article A narrative therapy approach to supervision and critical reflection: A conversation card resource — Ash Husband
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2025 / 2025: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Peer-reviewed papers (2025:1)

A narrative therapy approach to supervision and critical reflection: A conversation card resource — Ash Husband

In this paper I explore a narrative therapy approach to supervision and critical reflection and present the “Reflective Conversation Cards”, a resource to support practice reflection. The cards guide conversation partners through a series of reflective questions informed by narrative ideas, aiming to democratise access to narrative therapy supervision. I present four stories from practice, which show how the cards were developed in collaboration with other practitioners. The practice stories also show how the cards can be utilised by individuals and groups in diverse practice contexts and with practitioners of varied professional backgrounds. Importantly, the practice stories show how the cards can support collaborative conversations that incorporate an ethic of accountability to the people we work alongside.

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March 14, 2025
Read more about the article Healing narratives: A journey of transformation and renewal — Mercy Shumbamhini
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2025 / 2025: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Peer-reviewed papers (2025:1)

Healing narratives: A journey of transformation and renewal — Mercy Shumbamhini

This article shares a narrative journey with a young man grappling with the effects of problematic substance use. Substance use had disrupted his dreams of becoming a medical doctor, keeping him out of university for a year. I embarked on a transformative journey with the young man and his family, guided by ideas and practices of narrative pastoral therapy. This narrative journey was non-blaming, collaborative, participatory, inclusive and contextual. The family and I wove a new tapestry telling a story of healing, transformation and renewal.

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March 14, 2025
Read more about the article Double story development in contexts where injustice is ongoing: Learnings from practice — Maya Sen
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2025 / 2025: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Peer-reviewed papers (2025:1)

Double story development in contexts where injustice is ongoing: Learnings from practice — Maya Sen

This paper explores challenges posed to double–story development in situations of ongoing injustice. Located within the Indian context, it proposes various narrative practices to address these challenges and facilitate re-authoring. The paper examines two key practices: contextualising stories and narrative explorations of the body. Additionally, it demonstrates how different narrative maps – externalising, deconstruction, re-authoring, re–membering and body-based narrative practices – can be interwoven to respond.

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March 14, 2025
Read more about the article Fire conversations: Ways narrative practices can intersect with an inclusive spiritual care approach — Katrina Power and Jesse Size
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2025 / 2025: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Peer-reviewed papers (2025:1)

Fire conversations: Ways narrative practices can intersect with an inclusive spiritual care approach — Katrina Power and Jesse Size

This paper considers the ways that narrative practices can intersect with and add richly to a meaningful and inclusive spiritual care approach. In this paper, Aunty Katrina, a Kaurna Elder, and Jesse, a spiritual care chaplain, reflect on conversations together in a hospital setting and what helped to make these occasions of mutual respect and blessing.

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March 14, 2025

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