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- 2007, 2007: Issue 4
- Discovering Children’s Responses to Trauma: A Response-based Narrative Practice— Angel Yuen
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- Modern discourses of victimhood, which are often present in instances of childhood trauma, can contribute considerably to establishing long-term negative identity conclusions. However, focussing on children’s responses to trauma can aid in conversations that contribute to rich second story development, without re-traumatising children or young people. These kinds of enquiry can focus on children’s acts of resistance, places of safety,…
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- 2009, 2009: Issue 1
- From Oppression, Resistance Grows— Holly Loveday
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- This paper explores the author’s use of narrative practices with women experiencing domestic abuse, and looks at how, despite living in a broader environment of secrecy and threat, women’s voices and stories can be honoured and a place of refuge can become one of laughter and celebration. The paper explores women’s reflections on their experiences of counselling and group work,…
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- 2011, 2011: Issue 1
- My Practice as Described by Those Who Consult Me— Marit E. Løkken
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- Clients’ experiences of conversations with therapists is a crucial issue, but one that is often not directly researched. Marit Løkken embarked on a research project that involved not only asking her clients about their experiences of therapy, but also involved developing the research project, and the questions asked, in consultation with those clients. This article describes this process, includes examples…
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- 2009, 2009: Issue 3
- Narrative Ideas in the Field of Child Protection— Alison Knight & Rob Koch
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- This paper explores the use of various narrative practices with children and their families in child protection settings. The first half examines how a ‘double listening’ approach and the engagement of outsider witnesses can be used with children who have experienced trauma and abuse. The second half of the paper gives an account of therapy over a number of months,…
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- 2016, 2016: Issue 3
- Stories of the body: Incorporating the body into narrative practice— Eleni E. Karageorgiou
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- This paper is an attempt to incorporate the body into the practice of narrative therapy so as to offer richer possibilities for therapists to work with clients’ stories. The paper presents various case studies working with various body ‘issues’, such as quadriplegia, multiple sclerosis, sexual intercourse, stress, and body image. Maps of narrative practice brought to these issues include externalising…
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- 2010, 2010: Issue 1
- The Journey of Healing: Using Narrative Therapy and Map-making to Respond to Child Abuse in South Africa— Ncazelo Ncube
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- This paper documents an approach to working with girls in eastern and southern Africa who have been subject to abuse and trauma. It first summarises the key principles of narrative therapy’s approach to working with trauma and abuse, and then outlines a workshop that was co-created with girls and young women, based on the ‘journey metaphor’ and ideas of map-making…
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- 2012, 2012: Issue 1
- Inviting paranoia to the table— Amanda Worrall and June
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- This article describes conversations that Amanda had with a woman called June, whose life had been affected by a condition called ‘schizoaffective disorder’. When Amanda first met with June, June was in good health but paranoia was influencing her life in a way that wasn’t acceptable to her. This article describes how Amanda and June invited paranoia to come to…
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- 2015, 2015: Issue 4
- Re-contextualising conversations and rich story development— Chris Dolman
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- In contrast to more common understandings circulating in contemporary Western culture that de-contextualise the problems experienced by people and tether them to their bodies and beings, this paper describes a number of narrative practices that contribute to the rich description of the context in which problems emerge in a person’s life. Therapeutic practices of double story development that provide a…
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- 2008, 2008: Issue 3
- Using the ‘Failure Conversations Map’ with Couples Experiencing Fertility Problems— Razi Shachar
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- This paper details work done with a heterosexual couple who were experiencing fertility problems. Drawing on the externalising conversations and failure conversations maps of narrative practice, the author worked with the couple to explore culturally-dominant norms around pregnancy and fertility, resulting in renewed options for parenthood. The paper discusses aspects of Michel Foucault’s notion of modern power in relation to…
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- 2017, 2017: Issue 2
- We don’t give up: Developing family and community responses to adolescent-to-parent violence— Ben Shannahan
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- This paper explores the use of narrative therapy practices in developing a community response to a young man’s use of violence towards his family. Opportunities and ethical tensions experienced in incorporating principles and methods of nonviolent resistance (Omer, 2004) are discussed along with opportunities narrative therapy might offer as a response to these tensions. Different conceptions of responsibility and accountability,…
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- 2017, 2017: Issue 2
- Stories of hope and pride— Emma Cox
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- Pregnant women with negative identity conclusions often have their stories of hope and pride overshadowed by problem-saturated stories. Consequently, their stories of hope and pride remain unnoticed and untold. This paper describes how narrative practices can create space for these women’s stories of hope and pride to be noticed and richly told in ways that allow women to reconnect with…
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- 2010, 2010: Issue 4
- Yahav’s Story: My Way of Living with Tourette’s— Ron Nasim
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- This article documents narrative therapy with a young man who is dealing with the effects, of Tourette Syndrome, and began to experience thoughts of self-harm and doing harm to others. Through an externalising conversation, a conversation to trace values and ideals, and using ideas of ‘the absent but implicit’, the author assisted the young man to achieve some distance from…
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- 2015, 2015: Issue 2
- Consulting young people about living with cancer— Carolyn Ng
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- This article draws on the narrative therapy concept of ‘consulting your consultants’, and documents the skills and knowledges of young people who are living with cancer. The young people offer their ideas about how to think about aspects of cancer in externalised ways; ways of focusing on living, rather than dying; the life lessons and skills they have learnt from…
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- 2017, 2017: Issue 2
- Exploring narrative group work for responding to burnout in novice teachers— Fan Lingli
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- This paper describes a project supporting six novice teachers in Chinese public kindergartens to successfully take charge of their lives during their first year of teaching. With the help of externalising conversations and re-authoring conversations, we explored the realities of being a new teacher, and how burnout had invaded these teachers’ lives. The teachers came to recognise themselves again and…
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- 2010, 2010: Issue 4, Free articles
- ‘Standing Together on a Riverbank’: Group Conversations about Sexual Abuse in Zimbabwe— Sipelile Kaseke
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- This brief article outlines a community response to sexual abuse in a rural community near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Local community workers developed a culturally-appropriate methodology for exploring young people’s responses to sexual assault in ways that did not rely on individual disclosure or public shaming and, instead, contributed to a collective voice which would question, resist, and protest against sexual abuse.…
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- 2009, 2009: Issue 2
- Narrative Explorations in Clinical Health Psychology— Rob Whittaker
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- This paper documents the author’s experience as a clinical psychologist using narrative approaches with people living with diabetes. The paper begins by contrasting narrative and poststructuralist approaches with those of contemporary clinical health psychology, and gives some background on diabetes and the broader challenges this can bring to people’s lives. Three narrative practices are then explored in relation to diabetes:…
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- 2004, 2004: Issue 4
- Narrative Therapy with Young People: What Externalising Practice and Use of Letters Make Possible— Dave McGibbon
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- This paper explores how preferred identities of young people can be made more visible through externalising practices and the use of therapeutic letters.
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- 2018, 2018: Issue 1
- Reclaiming lives from sexual violence— Tim Donovan
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- This article demonstrates the application of the theory and practices of narrative therapy to counselling men who have been subject to childhood sexual violence. It presents an illustrative case of the author’s work with a man who was sexually abused as a child by a clergy member at his church and school. A narrative approach supported the man to gain…
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- 2008, 2008: Issue 3
- Spreading the News: Coping Tricks from the Sickle Cell Clinic!— Sarah Lunn
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- This paper describes how the narrative practice of ‘spreading the news’ was used with a group of children with Sickle Cell Disease and their families. A ‘day out’ was organised for all who attended a hospital paediatric clinic for Sickle Cell Disease. This day provided the opportunity for all to share and celebrate their unique knowledges and successes in living…
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- 2017, 2017: Issue 2
- Stuttering therapy when the problem isn’t stuttering: Using narrative practices in a fluency-centric society— Voon Pang
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- Since the early 2000s, practitioners have developed beneficial ways of using narrative practices in work with adults who stutter. This article extends their work to apply narrative practices to work with children and young people who stutter. In a speech language therapy context, externalising conversations were used to determine how young people understood their own speech ‘problems’ – sometimes in…
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- 2008, 2008: Issue 3
- Externalising Questions: A Micro-analytic Look at Their Use in Narrative Therapy— Tom Strong
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- This paper examines the narrative therapy practice of asking and answering externalisation questions. It looks at some of theoretical and clinical literature related to the use of these questions and then turns a micro-dynamic look at some examples of how such questions were asked and answered in the course of therapeutic dialogue. The focus is on learning from these analyses…
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- 2009, 2009: Issue 2
- Is This Sex Addiction?: Questioning ‘Sex Addiction’ in Therapeutic Counselling Conversations— Ash Rehn
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- This paper examines the concept of ‘sex addiction’, and its increasing popularity since the emergence of AIDS in gay communities in the 1980s. Adopting narrative therapy’s ethical orientations of decentred yet influential positioning, and being in a ‘lifelong apprenticeship’, the author worked with a number of men to renegotiate their relationship with ‘sex addiction’ in their lives. This work included…
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- 2010, 2010: Issue 4
- Overcoming Overwhelming— Ross Hernandez
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- This paper explores ways to richly describe parents’ skills and knowledges in dealing with problems that threaten to overwhelm their lives, especially in the context of raising children with significant challenges. The narrative practices of externalising conversations, tracing values, outsider-witness conversations, and therapeutic letters and documents were used with parents facing various problems.
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- 2005, 2005: Issue 2
- The Goodbye Feelings: Working with Children Living in Two homes – One with Mum and One with Dad— Carolyn Markey
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- Through descriptions of counselling conversations, this paper explores ways of working with children who are affected by parental separation and who move between two households. It includes extracts of conversations, therapeutic letters and a graph drawn by the child concerned.
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