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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE THERAPY AND COMMUNITY WORK |
| PART ONE: Stories from Hong Kong | |
Flags and
multiple identities:
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Through an exploration of personal
history and narrative, this piece conveys some of the complex themes
that contribute to the construction of Chinese Hong Kong identity.
Poignant imagery invites readers to consider the question: ‘What does it
mean to be Chinese in Hong Kong?’
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Reconstructing life
journeys:
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This article describes creative work with
a group of young women who have been suffering from mental illness for
several years. The work conveyed here builds upon the metaphor of a
journey of life (see McPhie & Chaffey 1998) and adapts this to a Hong
Kong context. |
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Hong Kong – the place that shapes my
identity Little Lit Siu-wai |
Through an exploration of family history
this piece invites the reader to consider the complexities of identity
faced by the people of Hong Kong.
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Overcoming craving: The use of narrative practices in
breaking drug habits Har Man-kwong |
This paper describes the use of narrative
practices in working with young people who wish to revise their
relationship with substance use. It describes the use of the metaphor of
the migration of identity and externalising conversations, and explores
issues related to Hong Kong culture. |
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Responding to child abuse: Confucianism, colonisation, post-structuralism Angela Tsun On-kee |
Post-modern and post-structuralist ideas
encourage us to ask questions such as: What is reality? What is
objectivity? Who decides the objective criteria? Whose perspectives are
informing what we believe to be the truth? How are our identities
constructed? This piece describes how these questions have informed the
author’s therapy and social work practice with a particular emphasis on
understanding and responding to child abuse in Hong Kong.
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The roads of Hong Kong – Where are you taking me? Ting Wai-fong |
Through the imagery of roads and the
metaphor of a journey, this piece invites the reader to consider the
complexities of Hong Kong history and how they shape identity. |
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Lily Ho Chi-kwan |
This paper describes conversations with
Lily, a twelve year-old girl, about the ways in which she is living with
diabetes. It particularly explores Lily’s skills in navigating who to
tell about her diabetes and how to ensure that they are trustworthy. |
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Young people and
the creation of culture Victor Wong Cheong-wing |
As practitioners, considerations of
culture are vital to understanding how people’s identities are
constructed and shaped, and how meanings are given to certain actions.
What is more, how we conceptualise culture has very real implications
for policy and for practice. This short piece describes the importance
of recognising the active part that young people in Hong Kong are making
to the creation of culture. |
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reflections on the use of the journey metaphor in working with young
women who have experienced sexual abuse Delphine Yau Cheuk-wai |
In this short piece, the author offers
reflections on a group she facilitated with young women who have
experienced sexual abuse. This group was shaped by the use of a metaphor
of a journey, by externalising conversations, and by the use of artistic
expression. |
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Key historical moments in the making of modern Hong
Kong Mark Li Kin-yin |
This piece has been created to
offer readers an historical overview of Hong Kong history and the waves
of immigration and emigration that have shaped Hong Kong society.
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| PART TWO: Responding to trauma | |
| Working with
people who are suffering the consequences of multiple trauma: A narrative perspective Michael White
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In October 2003, Michael White gave a
presentation at the Treatment & Rehabilitation Center for Victims of
Torture and Trauma (TRC) in Ramallah, Palestine. In consultation with
those present, it was decided that it would be helpful to have this
presentation recorded, transcribed, edited and then translated into
Arabic to be made available to other Arabic-speaking workers in
Palestine and elsewhere. The paper published here was created for this
purpose. In doing this, we realised that it was a paper that would be of
value to a wider readership and so have included it here. Jane Hales
transcribed an audiotape of the presentation and David Denborough
assisted in bringing this piece to its current form. The paper places an emphasis on the
priority given to the redevelopment and reinvigoration of a ‘sense of
myself’ in working with people who have been subject to trauma. It
describes how this can be achieved through the use of definitional
ceremony structures, outsider-witness practices and re-authoring
conversations. The last section of the paper discusses the work of
memory theorists and its relevance to work with people who have
experienced trauma. More particularly it proposes that, in order to
re-associate dissociated memory, we must first enable a revitalisation
of the ‘sense of myself’. |