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what-is-narrative-therapy-alice-morganWhat is narrative therapy? An easy-to-read introduction by Alice Morgan

 

This is a very popular easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy with accessible language, a concise structure, and a wide range of practical examples. This book covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, the use of rituals, leagues, reflecting teams, and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker, or community worker who is trying to apply narrative ideas in your own work context, this book has been written with you in mind.

Contents

 
Part one: What is narrative therapy?

Introduction

1. Understanding and living our lives through stories
2. Stories in the therapeutic context
3. Externalising conversations: Naming the problem
4. Tracing the history of the problem
5. Exploring the effects of the problem
6. Situating the problem in context: Deconstruction
7. Discovering unique outcomes
8. Tracing the history of the meaning of the unique outcome and naming an alternative story

 
Part two - Thickening the alternative story

Introduction
9. Re-membering conversations
10. Therapeutic documentation
11. Therapeutic letters
12. Rituals and celebrations
13. Expanding the conversations
14. Outsider witness groups and definitional ceremonies

 

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