|  |  |  | | | Catalogue
of
Articles
| All
prices are shown in Australian Dollars | |
| |
 |
 | |
Feminism and post modernism: Dilemmas and points of resistance
- by
Rachel Hare-Mustin & Jeanne Marecek
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This influential paper explores the relationship between feminism and postmodernism
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Saying hullo again: The incorporation of the lost relationship in the resolution of grief
- by
Michael White
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This groundbreaking paper introduces an alternative metaphor for working with those experiencing significant grief. Guided by the 'saying hullo metaphor', Michael White formulates and introduces questions to open up the possibility for persons to reclaim their relationship with the lost loved one.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Her-story in the making: Therapy with women who were sexually abused in childhood
- by
Amanda Kamsler
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This chapter discusses some of the problematic aspects of the ‘traditional’ cultural stories about: the long-term effects on women of child sexual assault, and therapy approaches for working with these women when they identify difficulties in their lives. Some alternative ideas are outlined about how a therapist can participate with women clients who experienced sexual assault in childhood, to enable them to go beyond the oppression of the dominant, pathologising stories they have about themselves so that they may begin to have access to new, empowering stories about their own resourcefulness and survival.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
"I give things a go": The story of how Dylan Wise rediscovered his confidence
- by
Andrew Tootell
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy called Dylan who attended therapy sessions with his mother and father in order to address issues of depression and a lack of confidence. The paper comprises memories of counselling sessions, copies of letters and transcripts of videotapes, as well as a letter from Dylan, three months post therapy. Here, Andrew Tootell shares his journey with Dylan, and his parents, as they uncovered the experiences and important events that just did not fit the dominant story of Dylan and enabled him to step into new experiences of himself and of his life. This paper will be of relevance to those working with children and their families.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
A critique of the DSM
- by
Karl Tomm
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this paper, Karl Tomm raises his concern over the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). He believes the impact of the DSM is felt far beyond the United States, and continues to grow larger. For this reason, he believes, more criticism of the DSM is required, and here discusses some criticisms that have been brought to his attention
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
'A different story': Narrative group therapy in a psychatric day centre
- by
Ron Nasim
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes a narrative group therapy model applied in a psychiatric day centre. The group was conceived as a form of definitional ceremony, in which a participant is invited to share an account of a unique outcome that happened to them recently, while the other members serve as outsider witnesses to this development. A detailed example of a therapeutic conversation about depression, and the outsider witness group’s responses, shows how these generative conversations can be held in a psychiatric setting. A second example of this work details how outsider witness group reflections can be used to form the basis of an alternative kind of ‘discharge letter’. Finally, the paper discusses significant dilemmas arising from the work, including how to discern which subordinate story-lines to develop from the many entry points available.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
A journey towards gender belonging: Adam's story
- by
Jodi Aman
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper summarises the journey of a sixteen-year-old young person who had felt displaced in the body of a somatic girl and now identifies as a young man. This has been a journey towards gender belonging. The information described in this paper was taken from a series of therapeutic conversations over an eight month period.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
A letter to Robyn: explorations of the written word in theraputic practice
- by
Robyn Pentecost
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores the co-production of a literary therapy. It is drawn from research conducted by Mandy Pentecost which investigated the therapeutic writing practices employed in one narrative counselling relationship in which Robyn was the client and Mandy the counsellor. Four different genres of writing were engaged with during the counselling process: ‘homework’ questions, a therapeutic letter, a ‘rescued speech poem’, and a short story. These four genres are described in this paper which is written in an auto ethnographic form in the shape of a letter to Robyn.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
A service-user and therapist reflect on context, difference, and dialogue in a therapy for anorexia
- by
Tracy Craggs and Alex Reed
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article was co-authored by the participants in a therapeutic process which occurred within a specialist eating disorders service in a hospital setting. One of us was seeking assistance in their struggle with anorexia, and the other was a therapist working in this field. In addition to our encounters in the therapy process, we share in common a background in research and an orientation towards postmodern research methodologies. We became interested in how this shared research interest might provide an additional resource towards creating new knowledges and change. Through a process of shared inquiry, we sought to explore, from our different positions, the therapeutic process that we were engaged in by attending to the different narratives that shaped our experiences, understandings and actions. In particular, the influence of the clinical context on our respective experiences of the therapeutic process was examined. Some tentative reflections are offered regarding the potentially fruitful inter-relationship between therapy and research activities, and the transformative potential of this kind of shared inquiry.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
A story of a quest to walk arm-in-arm with Wellness
- by
Jacinta Richards
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This is a paper about knowledge that comes from experience. As a narrative therapist, Jacinta Richards believes that in order to be able to piece together the stories and experiences of other people’s lives, she must first have begun to understand the experiences of her own. In this paper, Jacinta discusses the most challenging experience of her life – living with chronic fatigue.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
A time to talk: Re-membering conversations with elders
- by
Bobbi Rood
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes using various narrative practices with elderly residents in a community care home. The author first reviews some of the historical influences of work with elderly people on narrative therapy, particularly the legacy of Barbara Myerhoff’s work on life histories and performance. Following this are different examples of outcomes of engaging in narrative conversations with elderly people including a collective document, poetry, and excerpts from re-membering conversations.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Addressing sex in narrative therapy: Talking with hetrosexual couples about sex, bodies, and relationships
- by
Yael Gershoni et al
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In talking with couples about sex, it is often assumed that storylines about sex also involve storylines about relationships and bodies. In our couple therapy work, however, we have found it significant to disentangle these storylines. By exploring separate storylines of relationship/intimacy, body image and sex, many new possibilities for narrative sex therapy with couples have emerged. This paper outlines these possibilities through sharing one example of narrative sex therapy with a heterosexual couple.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Adoption: Selected Papers
- by
Various Authors
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Adoption is one topic that - when written about - raises many questions and poses certain dilemmas. Many views can be taken on the topic, and there are always stories to be told. In this package, we have included some of these stories. There are stories of those who have had negative experiences when working with people who have been through adoption, and those who have personally experienced adoption. There are also the stories to be told from mother's who have given their children up for adoption, and of course, those too, from adoptive parents about their role. Not all stories are covered in this collection, but we hope to have given a broad overview of the processes and effects of adoption.
| |
Price: AUD
$19.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Alcohol, drugs and suffering
- by
Terry Callahan
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper is a brief report on a project in which Terry was witness to the stories of suffering and alcohol abuse by Mary (not her real name), who at the time had been in session with him for eight months.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Alternative interventions to violence: Creative interventions
- by
Mimi Kim
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Are the solutions to violence against women and children to be found via state interventions – through the police, prosecution and imprisonment? Or are alternative, grassroots, community based responses required? These are questions being asked by many women of colour in the USA. Creative Interventions is an organisation based in Oakland, California, which seeks to empower families and communities to resolve family, intimate partner and other forms of interpersonal violence. It is hoped that this piece will spark conversations about ways of supporting community initiatives to address violence against women. Practitioners and community members working on similar issues in other countries are invited to contribute their ideas and stories.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
An exposé of 'body-worry'
- by
Cari Corbet-Owen
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Concerns about body size and weight have increased in western cultures in past decades. This brief paper recounts how one client, concerned about ‘body worry’ for both herself and her daughter, was able to engage in a deconstructive conversation about body image and diet. Unpacking some of the cultural understandings and prescriptions around these issues provided a foundation for the client to renegotiate her relationship with ‘body-worry’ and restore her relationship with her daughter.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Annals of the 'New Dave'- Status- Abled, disabled, or weirdly abled
- by
Epston, Lobovits & Freedman
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Dave’ and his family were struggling wit the effects of what is commonly referred to as ‘ADD’. Described in this paper are attempts to work with Dave and his family that honour difference and yet at the same time in no way minimize issues of violence. Dave’s mother Sharon offers a beautiful introduction to this paper – informing us of how it all began for them, when they first noticed Dave was different. This paper will be of assistance to those working with young people, those trying to address ‘ADD’, and those who are seeking a form of therapy that celebrates difference.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Audience as accountability? Dilemmas in the use of outsider-witness practices in supporting men’s anti-violence projects
- by
David Newman
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article explores the author’s concerns about accountability when inviting women as outsider witnesses to conversations with men. A practice-based example of working with a man on issues of anger and violence provides a springboard for thoughtful questions about gender accountability, men’s privilege, safety, and ‘non-burdening invitations’.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Azima ila Hayati - An invitation in to my life: Narrative conversations about sexual identity
- by
Sekneh Hammoud-Beckett
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes a therapeutic conversation with a young gay Muslim man and his brother which was shaped by the definitional ceremony metaphor. Through deconstructing ‘games of truth’ in relation to attitudes to homosexuality and the process of ‘coming out’, space was created for this young man and his brother to realign their relationship. In the midst of the current hostile climate affecting all Arab Muslim families, this paper describes the story of two brothers and their concept of loyalty.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Breaking the silences: Acknowledging our own stories, talking with our families and the nation
- by
Virginia Leake and Yehuda Shaul
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Breaking the Silence is an organisation of young Israelis who are publicly sharing the stories and images of what they were involved with when serving in the military in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Their work is contributing to debate within Israeli society and their exhibitions have also travelled the world, raising awareness of the consequences of occupation wherever it is taking place. This interview describes the different sorts of silences – personal, familial, national – that act to sustain occupation and the work that is required to change this. The following piece will be relevant not only to those with an interest in the Middle East, but also for those working with the military, ex-military and their families, and for those working with people who are trying to come to terms with what they may have participated with in the past.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Building partnerships in responding to vulnerable children: A rural African community context
- by
Yvonne Sliep
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article documents a project in rural Malawi and describes some emerging principles to assist community workers who are seeking to respond to vulnerable children in poverty-stricken environments. A key focus involves building partnerships with all concerned.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Cards as theraputic documents
- by
Adams Hahs
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Therapeutic documents have been a feature of narrative practice for many years. In this paper, the author introduces a little-used type of therapeutic document, greeting cards. Examples include a ‘bon voyage’ card to worry, a celebration card due to the reduction of fear, and an anniversary card marking a year of ‘reduced sadness’. The author has found this type of brief therapeutic document to be a very effective part of the therapeutic engagement.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Caring about Violence and our communities
- by
Amanda Reddick
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Developing meaningful partnerships and relationships between workers responding to violence and communities affected by these issues requires considerable care and thoughtfulness. In this piece, Amanda Reddick describes some of the thinking that is informing the community engagement she is involved in and the histories upon which this is based.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Challenging Developmental Truths - Separating from Separation
- by
V. Dickerson, J. Zimmerman, L. Berndt
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Adolescence has been the subject of many studies and much discussion. Usually, the ideas about adolescence centre around the so-called developmental task of separation/individuation and finding one's identity. This article suggests a focus on a counter-narrative of connection. It will be of practical value for practitioners working with young people and their families.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Collaborative Representation: Narrative ideas in practice
- by
Sue Mann
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Collaborative Representation is a wonderful paper on Sue's journey of inviting hospital patients to contribute to what information is recorded in their medical records. An insight into practices that influenced her as a social worker.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Coming to terms with the events of September 11
- by
Kenneth V Hardy
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Kenneth V. Hardy is a well known and widely respected family therapist who lives and works in New York City. In this piece he speaks of the events of September 11th, the question of rage, forgiveness, injustice, power and privilege. This interview with Ken Hardy was conducted by David Denborough.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Considerations of Place
- by
Mark Trudinger and Manja Visschedijk
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
What might be some of the possibilities of exploring the relationship of ‘place’ to identity in the lives of the people with whom we work? This article explores some ideas that might inform this work, and details one practice-based example: working with young men on issues of gender and violence. Part 1 explores the relative invisibility of ‘place’ in narrative therapy and its source texts, as well as in the broader histories of thought in western culture, before looking at some possible sources of inspiration and thinking about how we might be able to explore place more fully in narrative practice. Part 2 examines the social construction of maps and their relation to identity, looks at how mapping has been used to support new directions in the lives of individuals and communities, and wonders how maps might be taken up as therapeutic documents in narrative therapy. Part 3 is an outline of a workshop the author has run with young men based on the preceding ideas, which examines the perpetration and resistance to violence in local places, and in the young men’s negotiation of those places.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Conversations about communication with men
- by
Geoff Watson
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
When many of the men who were consulting with Geoff Watson complained of ‘communication breakdowns’ in their lives, Geoff thought it an idea to have a conversation with men about communication. It seemed, after all, that ‘communication’ was responsible for many of their problems. This paper attempts to answer many questions, such as: ‘What is this thing we call communication?’ and ‘Why is communication only problematic in certain circumstances?’ It will be a valuable companion for those working with men who wish to communicate differently.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Conversations about conversations on chronic pain and illness: Some assumptions for a one-day workshop
- by
Tom Strong
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The ways in which we talk about pain and illness greatly reflects on how we experience it. The more we talk about painful situations, the less painful they become. This paper approaches such conversations in a workshop format, that create differences intended to generate new forms of resourcefullness. Strong suggests that conversing on how we converse about pain and suffering has the potential to minimise the suffering.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Conversations in groups with women about their experiences of using anger, abuse and violence
- by
Julie Sach
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper considers gendered constructions of anger and how women’s experiences of using anger, abuse and violence may be shaped by these. It also examines the contribution of difficult life experiences like trauma and abuse in shaping women’s anger responses. The article describes an evolving approach to group work with women that seeks to address some of these complexities.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Conversations with children with disabilities and their mothers
- by
Maksuda Begum
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Maksuda Begum (MA, in Bangla Language and Literature from Dhaka University) has been an employee of the Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation since 1999. She has completed a diploma degree in Special Education and a Masters in Special Education from the Bangladesh National University and has worked as a counsellor since 1998. She is also a trainee of Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA). Maksuda Begum is involved in research, publications and providing training and workshops for professional development.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Conversations with divorced parents: Disarming the conflict and developing skills of collaboration
- by
Anne Kathrine Loge
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Parents who have divorced often experience conflict-saturated accounts of each other and their relationship. This paper shares some narrative approaches which seek to help divorced parents ‘disarm the conflict’ and develop skills of collaboration. This work involves exploring each parent’s preferred values and purposes with linguagrams, inviting divorced parents to act as outsider witnesses for each other, and inviting in other divorced parents to act as outsider witnesses for the parents seeking therapy.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Conversations with persons dealing with problems of substance use
- by
Wendy West
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article provides practice-based narrative ideas for working with people who stuggle with substance use. The author gives examples of questions which unmask 'drug thinking', explore the effects of drug use, and help establish a different place to stand based on new or reclaimed purposes, values, beleifs, and commitments.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Countering injurious speech acts: Destabilising eight conversational habits of highly effective problems
- by
Stephen Madigan
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper discusses eight internalised injurious speech habits that contribute to the existence and maintenance of problems in people's lives. These habits are self-surveillance/audience, illegitimacy, escalating fear, negative imagination/invidious comparison, internalised bickering, hopelessness, perfection, and paralysing guilt. The paper then provides a full discussion of how to deconstruct and destabilise these habits, including many questions useful in therapeutic conversations.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Creating an alternative pathway through the criminal justice system: Enabling stories to be heard
- by
Kate Hannan
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article describes the work of the Australian-based Court Support Program, which offers support to young people who have been charged with committing a crime, or have been a victim of crime. The program helps young people understand the criminal justice system during the three stages of presentencing, sentencing, and post-sentencing. To describe the program's work in detail, the author presents her work with one young man using a range of narrative practices during each of these three stages.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Dancing our own steps: A queer families' project
- by
Kath Reid
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper focuses on the key narrative practices that informed the Queer Families project, which sought to co-explore and richly-describe diverse meanings of ‘family’, and ways of ‘living’ family. The project explored the history of the skills, practices, hopes, and dreams that family members brought to their versions of ‘family’, and drew on the metaphor of ‘family as a verb’, to explore alternatives ways of doing ‘families of choice’. The article first contextualises the concept of family, deconstructing dominant ‘family’ narratives in western cultures, and historicising the notion of ‘nuclear family’. It then describes the key narrative practices that informed the project, including re-authoring and re-membering conversations, therapeutic letter-writing, and documenting shared community themes. The article then describes the collective narrative practice of sharing these themes with other people to generate ‘re-tellings’ that were then shared with the initial families in the project.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Dancing with death
- by
Lorraine Hedtke
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article addresses the ongoing continuity of relationship. Lorraine Hedtke believes that when a person dies, a relationship does not die. When we experience death not as a finality but as an invitation to a new relationship with our dying loved one, we are breaking from a modernist approach that dictates we must 'get over' our grief and 'move on' in life. In spite of what we are taught about how a bereaved person should behave and grieve, 'letting go' may even be a harmful pathway.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
De-colonizing our lives: Divining a post-colonial therapy
- by
Makungu Akinyela
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
As colonized people, our healing must come through self-determined action. The task for those of us from African traditions is therefore to take steps in generating and identifying culturally appropriate practices, processes and methods to heal our own. We are challenged to rescue, reconstruct, and define therapeutic metaphors based on our own cultural and historical experiences. This process is what I refer to as the development of a post-colonial therapy.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Deconstructing addiction and reclaiming joy
- by
The Deconstructing Addiction League
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper consists of extracts from discussions on the Deconstructing Addiction League E-list. It includes correspondence between members, theoretical and practical considerations, celebrations, a virtual interview and definitional ceremony, as well as the first story in what is hoped to become an archive of practices of joy and connection – free from substances. This collection also demonstrates the ethic of community that is central to the League’s work.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Deconstructing perfectionism: Narrative conversations with those suffereing from eating issues
- by
Shona Russell
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this paper, I will discuss some of the narrative practices that have guided me in work with people suffering the effects of eating disorders. In preparing this paper, I have chosen to carefully review notes and transcripts of therapeutic conversations that span several years and which trace the journey of Katerina in her determination to reclaim her life from illness. I would like to acknowledge and thank Katerina for her significant contribution to our work together and for her willingness to share aspects of her life.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Dilemmas about 'taking responsibility' and cultural accountability in working with men who have abused their female partners
- by
Chris Chapman
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this paper, Chris Chapman describes two incidents from his work with men who had abused their female partners in which he inadvertently perpetrated cultural dominance. In one of these incidents, his ‘knowledge’ of the other man’s culture eventually allows him to recognise the cultural dominance; in the other, his ‘knowledge’ of the other man’s culture actively facilitates the cultural dominance. Chris reflects on these incidents in an attempt to reflexively problematise notions of cultural competency and individualistic notions of responsibility.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Discourse not language: The shift from a modernist view of language to the postmodern analysis of discourse in family therapy
- by
Stephen Madigan & Ian Law
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Modernist interpretations of language have led to a view of words and sentences as reflecting the "reality they represent". These ideas have been evident in developing the foundation of the culture of family therapy practice. Recently, discourse has become a popular theme for discussion. This paper discusses the shift from a modernist view of language to a postmodern view of discourse and its implication for the development and practice of family therapy.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Discovering childrens responses to trauma: a response-based narrative practice
- by
Angel Yuen
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
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, and other skills of living. This paper gives examples of therapy informed by this approach, and provides a map of four levels of enquiry for conversations with children and young people which elicit and build upon responses to trauma.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Documenting Work In Schools
- by
David McNenamin
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Young people’s lives are evaluated and recorded on a daily basis by teachers and adults. Whilst working as a student counsellor in a New Zealand high school, Donald McMenamin realized the power of this documentation and sought to put it to work in acknowledging students’ skills, achievements and abilities. Working side-by-side with students, and developing transparent processes of documentation within the school, this paper conveys ways of making document mean far more than just a bit of paper – instead, these documents become celebrations of knowledge and skills and in turn enable young people to gain greater control over the problems they may be facing in their lives..
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Documents and Treasures: power to our journeys
- by
Sue, Mem & Veronica
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Power To Our Journeys was formed when women who either currently struggle with hearing voices, or have heard voices in the past, came together to share their knowledges and skills and to challenge conventional ideas about mental health issues. In this keynote address, Sue, Mem and Veronika share some of the discoveries that they have found along the way.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Documents of knowledge about violence from African Nova Scotian communities
- by
Dulwich Centre Publications
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Members of North End Halifax and East Preston, two African Nova Scotian communities, have been meeting together to talk about violence and ways of addressing it in their context, and in their ways. Included here are key documents that have been created from these conversations. These include: • ‘Some key knowledge and ideas about violence in African Nova Scotian communities’ from women representing North End Halifax and East Preston • ‘Principles in relation to responding to violence in African Nova Scotian Communities’ • ‘Men speaking out to prevent abuse’ & ‘A Brother’s food for thought’ from the men of the communities of East Preston and North Preston. These documents have been circulated throughout the communities to spark further conversation and action on these issues.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Don't leave mother in the waiting room
- by
Margaret Roberts
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article discusses my therapy with mothers and children, following the disclosure of child sexual assault perpetrated by a person related to the child... Following a brief outline of the traditional approach to therapy with children who have been sexually assaulted, two illustrative studies in which the therapy involved joint sessions with the child and mother are discussed. This is followed by a brief overview of the theoretical framework upon which I have drawn for my work with mothers and children.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Dreams are never really lost: The voices of young women in secure care
- by
Adrielle, Amy and Alicia
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Written by three young women who live in secure care, this paper tells of what life is like for them and what it takes to get through. The stories discuss the discoveries they have made, the strategies they have developed, and the dreams that have been re-found along the way. This paper was offered as a presentation at the International Women in Prison Conference, held in Brisbane in November 2001.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Enabling forgiveness and reconciliation in family therapy
- by
Karl Tomm
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Within every family there are conflicts of some sort, whether it be of knowledge, understanding or personal values. Family members can often be deeply hurt or affected by these differences and, if left unresolved, can result in damaged relationships. Usually, however, family members will attempt to reconcile the relationship. This paper is an effort to share the understanding of some of the more complex issues associated with family conflict and reconciliation.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Establishing non-criminal records
- by
Eileen Hurley
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper highlights the use of therapeutic letters and documents in working with young men in a US jail. Examples of documents generated for and with young men include those designed to summarise conversations, request an audience, bear witness, invite support, link lives, archive solution knowledges, share skills and knowledges, and perform ceremony and song
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Ethical curiosity and poststructuralism
- by
Katy Batha
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this paper, the author explores the idea of ethical curiosity in therapeutic inquiry and the ways in which poststructuralist theories support her work as a school counsellor. The paper also poses some questions to reflect upon whilst aiming to perform ethical curiosity.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Every conversation is an opportunity: Negotiating identity in group settings
- by
Ali Borden
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Therapy within the context of a treatment centre can spread and confirm stories of deficit, or it can be an opportunity in which preferences and skills reverberate within a community and enable preferred reputations to be born. In a group setting, every conversation is an opportunity to negotiate meaning, and every group provides a stage for the performance of identity. This paper describes some ways that we at the Eating Disorder Center of California day treatment program guide some of that performance, including how we seek to take apart assumptions about eating problems and recovery, what is relevant to share, and what people have in common. Our intention is to open space for women to share their experiences as rich and complicated; their preferences as diverse, varied, and dynamic; and at the same time encourage points of connection, camaraderie, and community.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Externalising questions: A micro-analytic look at their use in narrative therapy
- by
Tom Strong
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
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 to enhance therapists’ ability to engage clients in collaborative and resourceful externalising conversations.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Finding grief: Using fiction-writing to communicate experience after the death of a loved one
- by
Susannah Sheffer
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper tells the story of how a fifteen-year-old boy, in the aftermath of his mother’s death, discovered a way to articulate and share his experience through writing, particularly through the creation of a fictional character. The paper looks closely at the relationship between the teenager and the author who worked with him, and at the way in which fiction can offer a unique opportunity to create a character that is ‘not oneself’ while paradoxically allowing for a deeper exploration of one’s own emotional landscape.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Finding resliency, standing tall: Exploring trauma, hardship, and healing with refugees
- by
Mike Boucher
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This document records some of the traumas and hardships faced by refugees living in Rochester, New York. Along with the effects of these hardships, the document also records the accomplishments that refugees have made, and how refugee communities resist the effects of trauma and hardship, as well as what sustains them.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Forever Able
- by
Lorna Roberts, Bernie Francis & Vi Eastham
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Lorna, Bernie and Vi are older people with stories to tell. They wish to share their stories to connect with the 'not yet disabled' community to lay the groundwork for future generations.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Forgiveness linked to justice
- by
Charles Waldegrave
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This interview with Charles Waldegrave of The Family Centre in Wellington, New Zealand explores many issues related to forgiveness and justice. It explores such topics as social justice, redress, culture, spirituality and religion, and the relation of forgiveness to family therapy and community work.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
From Debate to Dialogue: A facilitating role for family therapists in the public forum
- by
S. Roth, L & R Chasin, C. Becker, M. Herzig
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The Public Conversations Projected originated in 1989 to explore whether the skills used by family therapists to address seemingly intractable family conflicts could be usefully applied to stalemated public controversies. This paper concentrates on the initital exploration on the public controversy about abortion. It aims to develop an easily recognisible dialogue process in which each participant can explore and express the unique set of experiences, values, concerns and doubts that underlie his or her perspective on a divisive public issue, and become open to the experiences, values, concerns, and doubts of other people, whatever their views.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
From gender dysphoria towards gender euphoria
- by
Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper is a brief reflection on ‘No turning back: Male to female transgenders’ journeys of getting through tough times’ by Aya Okumura, and ‘The gender binary: Theory and lived experience’ by Julie Tilson, David Nylund and Lorraine Grieves. The author explores some of the effects of transgendered existence on partners and families, and wonders if we can move from concepts of ‘gender dysphoria’ to ‘gender euphoria’.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
From Isolation to Community: Collaborating with children and families in time of crisis
- by
Elizabeth Buckley and Phillip Decter
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article offers a narrative and anthropological framework for working with children and families in crisis. Psychiatric crisis can invite practitioners to prioritise their own ideas about problems and solutions above collaboration. The article argues that practices of collaboration are crucial when responding to these kinds of crises, and offers a framework for remaining in collaborative and hopeful positions. A range of clinical examples are also provided.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
From oppression, resistance grows
- by
Holly Loveday
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
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.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
From print to e-books in therapeutic story writing: A mother's tale
- by
Nikki Evans
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes how narrative therapy provided the background for developing a resource for troubled children and young people. The resource, Eloise’s excellent experiment, is the result of combining the professional with the personal as the author and her daughter used their storytelling, writing, and illustrative skills to tame ‘The Worries’.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
From Stigma and Isolation to Strength and Solidarity: Parents talking about their experiencesn of caring for children whose behaviour has been sexually concerning or harmful
- by
Judith Milner et al
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This is the story of how a group of parents who were caring for children whose behaviour had been sexually concerning or harmful, transformed their lives. In the process, they also transformed a service!
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Gathering Stories about growing up with a parent with mental health difficulties
- by
Shona Russell
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This project aims to gather stories that relate to the experience of children whose parents or carers have/had serious mental health difficulties. The project is seeking stories that not only richly acknowledge the difficulties faced, but also the skills and knowledge of children in these situations and the many different facets of the relationships between parents and child. It is hoped that a resource will be developed for children and for practitioners. This paper introduces this project, provides a list of questions to assist people in describing their experiences, and contains some examples of stories.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Group work with women who have experienced violence
- by
Jacqui Morse & Alice Morgan
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In working with women who have experienced violence in heterosexual relationships, groups provide a way to link lives around shared themes, values, and commitments. This paper gives examples of using narrative practices to centre women's knowledge, to locate responsibility, to accentuate preferred descriptions of identity, and to build connections between women. This solid, practice-based paper offers many examples of questions, themes, and structures for running groups with women who have experienced domestic violence.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Growing up with parents with mental health difficulties
- by
Ruth Pluznick and Natasha Kis-Sines
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper documents a project with young people who are growing up with a parent with mental health difficulties. The authors discuss how they are able to employ the narrative practice ‘double-listening’ to stories by the young people – listening not only to the challenges that this experience brought, but also asking about the skills, knowledges and opportunities the young people used to respond to these. This and the other narrative principles that informed the project – such as co-research and ‘enabling contribution’ are demonstrated by the inclusion of a therapeutic document from work with a young man, and a transcript of a conversation with a young woman and her mother.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Haunting from the future: A congenial approach to parent-children conflict
- by
David Epston, Cherelyn Lakusta and Karl Tomm
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes a novel approach to parent-children conflicts. It has been developed in response to situations when the present is particularly vexatious or where parties are passionately committed to their respective position which requires each to either defend it, or attack the rectitude of the other, and where to relent or even hesitate would risk loss of face.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Humorous Stories: Antidote to despair?
- by
Michele Murphy
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Intrigued by the numerous positive qualities of humour and how it might be therapeutically useful, Michele Murphy was inspired to write this paper. It proposes a narrative approach to humour in therapy that attempts to overcome many of the practical, moral and ethical pitfalls that can be associated with therapists' use of humour.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
In our own voice: African-American stories of oppression, survival and recovery in mental health systems
- by
Vanessa Jackson
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This landmark paper summarises the work of the 'In our own voice' oral history project, which collected stories of African-American people's experience of mental health ideology and treatment in the USA. The paper is divided into four parts: 'Freedom made us nuts' (a historical overview), 'Truth telling: Giving voice to liberation', 'Honoring our past, celebrating our present and protecting our future', 'In search of history'. The final two sections provide strategies and resources for using history projects as a tool for healing and social change.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Independence and local knowledge: The work of East Timor Insight
- by
Kiera Zen
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This interview with Kiera Zen describes the philosophy and work of East Timor Insight. Emphasising the significance of honouring and building upon East Timorese local knowledge and skills, this organisation is proposing alterative models of research, education and community development. The interviewer took place in Dili, East Timor, in March 2006. The interviewers were Cheryl White and David Denborough.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Intertwining the present with the past for the future
- by
Linette Harriott & Belinda Heyward
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper will be of interest to those engaging in narrative supervision, either as supervisors or supervisees! Belinda and Linette are both interested in narrative ways of working and have worked side by side in courses and supervision groups. When Linette visited Belinda for supervision consultations, rich conversations arose. This paper describes these conversations and ways of addressing the effects of ‘Feebleness’, ‘Doubt’ and ‘Self evaluation’.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Introducing counsellors to collaborative supervision
- by
Kathie Crocket
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Preparing counsellors for supervision is a long-neglected area. In this paper, Kathie Crocket explores the positioning of counsellors in supervision and offers an example of a letter she writes to students as a way of introducing them to the notion of collaborative supervision and all this can entail.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Is this sex addiction?: Questioning 'sex addiction' in therapeutic counselling conversations
- by
Ash Rehn
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
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.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
'It was not the words that hit mum': Working with the effects of domestic violence
- by
Carolyn Markey
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper documents the journey of conversations conducted between counsellor Carolyn Markey, eleven year old Jesse, forteen year old Josh and their mother, Joanne, all who have been deeply effected by domestic violence. A compilation of transcribed conversations, personal letters and drawings, 'It was not the words that hit mum' uncovers the ways in which children can be deeply affected by domestic violence and how they learn to survive.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Kanna's lucid dreams and the use of narrative practices to explore their meaning
- by
Milan Colic
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper presents how the lucid dreaming of a young woman, Kanna, was unpacked in line with the ideas and practices that underlie narrative therapy. It outlines how Kanna’s dream was rendered into a metaphor in order to story events and experiences in her life, culminating in the selection of a new support ‘Team’, and changing what she had come to know as distressing nightmares into ‘lucid dreaming’, in which she was authorised to shape the stories that she now could tell herself in both her sleep and her waking life.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Language, power and intentions: Some ideas of working with people whose lives are affected by substance use
- by
Michelle Cherubin
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this nuanced and thoughtful paper, Michelle Cherubin shares stories from her work with people whose lives are affected by substace use. The paper explores the ideas that inform her thinking when deciding which conversational directions to explore. Key themes include the use of language in therapy, considerations of modern power, responding to concerns about harm and considerations of protection, richly storying the web of relationships people have with alcohol and drugs, and therapist intentions in this work.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Learning from children and adults in times of war: Stories from bomb shelters in the north of Israel
- by
Yishai Shalif & Rachel Paran
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes a three-day visit to Qiryat Shemoneh, a small city in northern Israel, which was affected by war in mid-2006. The authors describe some of their understandings of the effects of war trauma, including the negative impacts on people’s identities, the isolation of people from others, and the positioning of people as ‘helpless victims’. They then explore how to respond to war trauma and its effects while people are still living under fire. This is illustrated by transcripts of conversations with families and children. Finally, they explore how workers dealing with the effects of war can support themselves during this work.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Light a candle... finding a way forward: The work of 'The Way'
- by
Virginia Leake, Younes Musa and Kahled Abu Awwad
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This interview took place in Ramallah, in the Palestinian Territories. It describes the work of a new Palestinian organisation The Way: The Palestinian Organisation for Development and Democracy which seeks to build a Palestinian civil society and achieve an independent Palestine through non-violent resistance. This interview traces the history of this organisation's work, the challenges being faced, the projects they are developing, and a philosophy that engenders hope. The interviewer was Virginia Leake, who works for Dulwich Centre Publications. Angel Yuen and Ruth Pluznick were also present.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Linking families together: Narrative conversations with children, adolescents, and their families
- by
Jodi Aman
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores ways of responding to the problems children and adolescents face in ways that include and honour the contributions of other family members. For example, parents and care-givers can be enlisted to help with scaffolding and outsiderwitnessing, as well as providing what the author refers to as ‘comemories’. The paper also discusses specific ways of working with children, such as keeping therapeutic conversations fun, regarding children as ‘story listeners’, opening space for conversations about difficult problems, and using therapeutic documents. How these considerations are put into practice is then documented in three accounts of working with children and adolescents on issues of anxiety, the death of a pet, and a parent’s diagnosis of cancer.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Linking Stories and Initatives: A narrative approach to working with the skills and knowledge of communities
- by
David Denborough et al
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes an approach to community work informed by narrative ideas that we hope will be of relevance to practitioners in a wide-range of contexts. Over the last year, a number of Aboriginal communities, which are experiencing hard times, have been exchanging stories. These are stories about special skills, special knowledge, about hopes and dreams and the ways that people are holding onto these. They are stories that honour history. This article describes the thinking that has informed this process. It also contains extracts of stories and messages from different communities.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Loss and letters
- by
Alex Millham and Natalie Banks
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper consists of two letters. The first letter is from a therapist to a young woman consulting her about her experience of the therapy sessions they had shared together. The second letter is the young woman’s response. It is hoped that these letters will provide other therapists with ideas for working with young women around issues of loss and grief.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Mad Fax Sunday: Are some virtual communities more real than virtual?
- by
Kerry Lane, David Epston & Sue Winter
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The following paper tells the story of a therapist who was stuck, overwhelmed and isolated by a problem that seemed to defy therapeutic techniques and skills. On the verge of giving up, she reached out to her support network - by fax. What began as a method of last resort, turned out to reveal a way of therapeutic possibilities. This paper is both a critique of the isolating and exclusionary effects of many conventional mental health practices, and also an additional to the literature on reflecting teams, audiences and communities of concern.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
'Making haste slowly': Applying a narrative approach to the task of managing a 'crisis' situation
- by
Manja Visschedijk
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This short piece explores the ways in which narrative ideas can be helpful for managers in responding to 'crisis' situations. It is written by a manager of a supported accommodation service. The author would appreciate any feedback, discussion or ideas from readers about this article or on any aspect of the use of narrative approaches in the management of similar 'crisis' situations.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Michael White: In memory
- by
John Winslade & Lorraine Hedtke
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The following piece has been written by John Winslade and Lorraine Hedtke as an offering to the narrative therapy field. John and Lorraine were both present in Michael White’s final workshop in San Diego. They were with Michael when he suffered a heart attack at a restaurant in the evening after this workshop, and they played significant roles in caring for friends and family from this moment until Michael died in a San Diego hospital a few days later. Their actions of care made a real difference to many people during this time. The piece that follows has tried to balance family concerns in relation to privacy, with requests from many people who knew and cared about Michael who have specifically asked to know more about Michael’s last days. A range of friends, family members and colleagues have contributed their reflections and perspectives in an attempt to achieve this balance. David Epston has also kindly contributed an introduction.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Multiple Personality Disorder: A social phenomenon?
- by
Susi Chamberlain
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Incidence of Multiple Personality Disorder is reported, almost exclusively, among sufferers of sustained and often horrific sexual, mental, or physical abuse. As such, the increase in Multiple Personality Disorder demonstrates unmistakably the prevalence of abuse in Western society. This paper does not challenge the explanation of experience which has been presented as Multiple Personality Disorder. It seeks, instead, to explore the cultural milieu in which such an explanation of experience has become viable.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Mungalli Falls Indigenous women's healing camp
- by
Greta Galloway & Robyn Moylan
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper provides a sparkling example of a community gathering, shaped by narrative ideas, designed to respond to the experiences of Indigenous Australian women. The paper describes a women's healing camp that was held for Indigenous women in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It provides a detailed account of the narrative and other processes engaged with at the camp, and provides participants' evaluation and recollections of this event one year later.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Musical re-tellings: Songs, singing, and resonance in narrative practice
- by
Chris Wever
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper documents the author’s use of songwriting in therapeutic contexts, especially when working with people in prison and the significant people in their lives. These songs fulfil different purposes: to honour survival and resistance and protest injustice; to assist in the re-membering of lives across time and beyond death; and to celebrate and proclaim subordinate storylines.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Narrative approaches in Centrelink: 'It's those turning questions...'
- by
Lesley Dalyell et al
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper documents a narratively-based interview guide for social work assessments used in Centrelink, a major Australian government department. The questions used in the assessment are illustrated by examples from conversations with the young people and their parents consulting the service, as well as reflections from the team of social workers who trialled the interview guide. The paper shows how working within existing governmental frameworks can still lead to conversations with clients that are respectful, generative, and hopeful.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Narrative explorations in clinical health psychology
- by
Rob Whittaker
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
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: externalising conversations, re-authoring conversations, and practices of circulation.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Narrative groupwork with young women - and their mobile phones
- by
Judith Milner
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This innovative paper describes work with a group of young women at risk of sexploitation. Aware that mobile phones were an important part of these young women's lives, Judith incorporated the group members' mobile phone calls into the group conversations. This helped recruit a wider audience, facilitate the expression of alternative ways of being, and developing a support network.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Narrative ideas in the field of child protection
- by
Alison Knight & Rob Koch
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
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, with a family struggling with the effects of violence, alcohol and depression.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Narrative mediation: Assisting in the renegotiation of discursive positions
- by
John Winslade
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes how the practice of mediation might be pursued from a narrative perspective. In the process, it introduces an emphasis on the analysis of ‘discursive positioning’ which can be helpful in making sense of what happens in conflict situations, as well as being a useful conceptual tool in the practice of mediation. Keywords: narrative mediation, discursive positioning
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Narrative practice and community assignments
- by
Michael White
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes how narrative practices can be used with communities who are facing various concerns and predicaments. It describes in detail the assumptions behind this work, as well as key principles such as transparency and 'doubly listening'. Also explored are understandings about addressing psychological pain and emotional distress in a context of trauma; developing partnerships between the therapeutic team and community members; and how to structure community-wide gattherings using definitional ceremony and documentation. This is a key article in the field of narrative approaches to community work.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Narrative therapy, 'eating disorders', and assessment: Exploring constraints, dilemmas, and opportunities
- by
Mim Weber
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper is a work in progress. It is an exploration of the usefulness of an eating disorders assessment and referral service to the people who consult it; and whether such a service can avoid practices which could be experienced as reinforcing of the eating disorder, pathologising, or blaming. It also looks at the possibility of working with narrative therapy ideas in an environment which does not necessarily subscribe to those ideas.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Narrative work and the metaphor of 'home'
- by
Katie Howells
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores how homes – both as physical places and as metaphors – can be taken up in narrative therapy practice. The author first explores various meanings that people attribute to the concept of ‘home’, and then outlines some options for the relevance of the home metaphor to various maps of narrative practice.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
No turning back: Make to female transgender journeys of getting through tough times
- by
Aya Okumura
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Female-to-male transgendered people face many challenges during their journeys of gender transition. These challenges can be all the more complex if transgendered people are simultaneously negotiating complexities of culture as well as gender. But along with these challenges also come celebrations, connections, and community. This paper describes the stories of five Asian and Pacific Islander transgendered women, and offers some questions which narrative practitioners may find useful to help trace the histories of transgender people’s skills and knowledges in moving through their unique journeys.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Opening the door of return
- by
James Amemasor
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This interview with James Anani Amemasor took place in Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, West Africa. Cape Coast Castle is one of the key fortresses used by the English for the purpose of slavery. Cheryl White, Makungu Akinyela and David Denborough were the interviewers.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Opening up a crack: An account of narrative practice in the context of pastoral therapy
- by
Kim Barker
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores some of the possibilities and challenges of therapeutic conversations with people who hold strong religious beliefs and/or find themselves under the influence of oppressive religious discourse. With particular reference to one woman’s therapy journey, it shows how the articulation and deconstruction of one’s ‘belief story’, in the absence of any prescriptive or proscriptive constraints, can render visible various possible entry points into alternative storylines.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Outsider-witness practices and group supervision
- by
Hugh Fox, Cathy Tench, and Marie
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes the work of a ‘narrative supervision group’ organised and run in Sheffield, UK. It conveys how the work of supervision reached out of the room in which the group met and touched the lives of the people who were at the centre of the discussions. In doing so, this paper illustrates a possible model for the use of outsider-witness practices in group supervision.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Outsider-witness practices in developing community with women who have experienced child sexual abuse
- by
Michelle Fraser
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The West Street Centre is a community-based service for women and young people who have experienced child sexual assault. As a feminist service we are interested in addressing the issue of child sexual assault in forums beyond the therapy room and therapeutic group programs. As such, we have been committed to finding ways to strengthen the community of women who use our service, as well as the women who work to respond to this issue in the community. Narrative outsider witness practices and a number of other key feminist community development ideas have provided a foundation for the organisation of two community forum days over the last two years. This paper describes these community days and the thinking that informed them.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Parent-teen conflict dissolution
- by
Ninetta Tavano
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes how Michael White’s ‘conflict dissolution map’ can be used with parents and adolescents to assist in ‘dissolving’ conflict in narrative therapy sessions. The author explains how the practice of ‘repositioning’ is combined with definitional ceremony and outsider-witness practices to create conversations that allow family members to re-engage in ways that are based on acceptance, care, and respect.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Personal Books as therapeutic documents
- by
Fiona Hamilton
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
After keeping a journal for many years, wondering what exactly they represent to her, Fiona Hamilton decided that they were, in fact, a sanctuary; A place where she can be herself. In her adult years, becoming more aware of narrative therapy ideas and practices, and how valuable these journals have been to her, Fiona began to think of ways to incorporate personalized books into the therapeutic process. In this paper, Fiona explores ways of developing personalized books with those who have been subjected to difficult times.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Perspectives on teaching family therapy from the Bouverie Centre
- by
Amaryll Perlesz et al.
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The Bouverie Centre at La Trobe University in Melbourne runs the longest established family therapy teaching program in Australia. ‘Bouverie’, as it is known, is highly regarded for its innovative teaching program, as well as its work in relation to HIV/AIDS, mental health, sexual abuse, acquired brain injury, and with homophobia in schools. This paper describes some of the current issues being faced and grappled with in therapy training programs both in Australia and elsewhere.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Practice Notes: Introducing Narrative Ways of Working
- by
Alice Morgan
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this paper Alice Morgan describes an exercise used in a training group at Dulwich Centre during narrative therapy training courses. The idea behind the exercise is to introduce the course to narrative ways of working. Here, Alice shares not only the exercise, but some of the participants’ responses, and how they have contributed to ongoing deconstruction of some educational practices. This piece will be relevant to those teaching narrative ideas and practices, or those new narrative therapy.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Putting an end to secrecy: Therapy with mothers and children following disclosure of child sexual assault
- by
Lesley Laing and Amanda Kamsler
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This influential paper describes therapy with mothers and their children following an intrafamilial child sexual assault. Although looking more specifically at the offender being a parental figure, it also addresses the possibility of such situations occurring when the offender is a non-family member who is in a position of trust. The focus of the paper is ongoing therapy rather than crisis intervention.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Queer Lives and Spiritual Leanings: Gay men talking about how we stayed connected, or got re-connected, to spiritual practices and religious values under challenging circumstances
- by
Charles Jasper
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
How do queer people stay connected or get reconnected to spiritual practices and values when the religious communities they grew up may have been powerfully rejecting of gay, lesbian or queer lives? This paper includes the stories of a number of gay men who grew up in Christian communities and describes their journeys in relation to matters of spirituality. The author also provides a framework that could be used to structure similar explorations with lesbian, bisexual, transgender or other queer folk.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Questions of agency: Explorations of the meanings of sexual coercion, gender, and participation in group sessions
- by
Bodil Pedersen
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The view that participating in psychosocial support groups can be helpful to women exposed to gendered violence such as rape and attempted rape, has much support. Drawing on a ‘subject theory’ approach and an empirical project, this article discusses some aspects of group practices. Which aspects of participation in groups may be helpful and which problematic? And what may we learn from working with groups? The discussion takes in such general questions as the position of professional counsellors and other participants, pathologisation, and the possible transfer of experience from one context to another, as well as more specific aspects of the meanings of victimisation, gender, sexualised coercion, and group participation.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Reflections across time and space: Using voice recordings to facilitate 'long-distance' definitional ceremonies
- by
Ross Hernandez
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes the author’s attempts to employ the definitional ceremony map of narrative therapy in contexts where outsider witnesses cannot be physically present. This was achieved through the use of a voice recorder, with the various stages of tellings and re-tellings being recorded and played for the outsider witnesses and clients, bringing about a ‘long-distance’ definitional ceremony which spans a gap in time and space.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Remembering Meg
- by
Anne Stringer with Chris, Angie, Jess, & Julia
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes how a group of young women, in conversation with their school counsellor, found ways to remember and honour the mother of one of their close friends. The paper has been written collaboratively between the school counsellor and the young women involved. It is shared here in the hope that it may offer something to other young women and to other school counsellors.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Remembrance: Women and grief project
- by
Dulwich Centre
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article documents the initial stage of Dulwich Centre’s Women and Grief Project, a project based on narrative practice to collect stories, skills, and knowledge of women responding to grief and loss. The article includes a list of narratively informed questions for women to reflect on their experiences of grief and loss, and a heartfelt response to these by a Palestinian woman, as well as responses to her writing by other women. The article also explores the complexities of grief in the context of violence, abuse, or other ‘fraught’ aspects of relationships, as well as socially-unsanctioned forms of grief.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
'Rescuing the said from the saying it': Living documentation in narrative therapy
- by
David Newman
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article explores some creative ideas about using therapeutic documents in narrative practice. After a discussion of the theoretical background, important principles, and ethical issues in employing documents, the author gives examples of emails used to recruit a ‘care team’, and keeping care teams informed of developments in people’s lives. The main part of the paper explores the idea of ‘living documents’: therapeutic documents that are added to by various clients over time. This new departure in therapeutic documents is different from the existing practices of ‘archives’ held by various leagues – which tend to simply be collections of different individual’s documents; and of collective documents, which are usually produced by a group in a collective voice.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Responding to men's violence
- by
Nancy Gray
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In their work with men who have enacted violence against their partners, a team of workers at New Start, in Halifax, Canada, draws upon the metaphor of ‘migration of identity’ to assist men to move away from violence and domination and towards different forms of masculinity. In this thoughtful and reflective two-part interview, Nancy Gray describes some of the key ideas that inform their work. The first part of the interview conveys how the migration of identity map and the re-authoring conversations map can be put to work with men who are violent. It also conveys some of the unexpected discoveries that emerge as a result. The interviewer was David Denborough.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Re-thinking deathbed forgiveness rituals
- by
Lorraine Hedtke
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This thoughtful paper questions how forgiveness has been described in recent medical models of death and bereavement. The author suggests that these ideas have at times promoted unnecessary deathbed conversations, in which awkward attempts to rush the process of forgiveness may serve to further distance people from deceased loved ones. The paper reviews the concept of revising the 'memberships' of life, the connection between forgiveness and this membership, and considerations of power.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Returning mental health issues to the realm of culture and community
- by
Odd Volden
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Within Norway, as in many countries, there is a long history of people who have experienced mental health difficulties taking action to try to change the ways in which mental health struggles are understood and responded to. In this paper, Odd Volden traces the history of such actions within Norway. He also invites the reader to reconceptualise mental health crises as cultural experiences, to move mental health issues back into the realm of culture and community and, in doing so, to strengthen some of the valued traditions of our respective cultures. This paper was crafted from an interview1 and was delivered as a keynote address at the 8th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference, which was held at Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway, June 2007.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Seasons of Life: Ex-detainees reclaiming their lives
- by
Nihaya Mahmud Abu-Rayyan
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes therapeutic/psychosocial support work with Palestinian ex-prisoners. This work draws upon imagery from nature’s seasons and elements to create conversations based on a ‘seasons of life’ metaphor. This metaphor enables ex-detainees to trace their journey through the stages of detention, incarceration, and release into society.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Shame on who? Consulting with children who have experienced sexual abuse
- by
Maxine Joy
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This chapter describes a range of ways to respond to children who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Children are never passive in the face of abuse. They put enormous effort into making meaning of what is happening to them and deciding what action to take as a response. It is important that their stories of courage, determination, resistance, innovation, and concern for others, are elevated and celebrated as acts of heroism. This paper by Maxine Joy was originally published as a chapter within the book “Once Upon a Time… Narrative approaches with children and their families” (edited by Alice Morgan). As this book is now out of print we have made this chapter available via the Narrative Therapy Library.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Shaping narrative therapy to fit local cultures: Stories from Newfoundland and Quebec
- by
Linda Moxley-Haegert
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Many community-minded families in Newfoundland seem to have difficulty with traditional therapies that are interpretative or directive. In a search for a therapeutic approach that might fit better with these clients’ world-views and complement their traditional manner of self-healing, narrative therapy was found. This paper presents one Newfoundland family’s story and the reasons for concluding that certain narrative practices are very appropriate for community-minded families.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Sharing stories: The work of an Experience Consultant
- by
Ellen Walnum
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper introduces the concept of Experience Consultant. Ellen Walnum is a Norwegian woman with the experience of growing up with a mother who had psychiatric difficulties. She has also had the experience of a mental health crisis. Determined to put these experiences to work for the benefit of others, Ellen is now employed as an Experience Consultant working with professionals, with mothers who have psychiatric difficulties and with their children. This paper describes some of the key skills involved in the work of Experience Consultants. It also offers a vision for re-thinking mental health services as partnerships built on a combination of ‘professional knowledge’ and ‘experience knowledge’. This paper was crafted from an interview1 and was delivered as a keynote address at the 8th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference, which was held at Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway, June 2007.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Snakes and ladders: The ups and downs of a self-harming lifestyle, Diane Clare
- by
Diane Clare
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes work with Jay, a woman who, after experiencing abuse as a child, engaged in acts of extreme self-harm in later life. The work involved a range of health care staff acting as a reflecting team, using outsider-witness practices of narrative therapy. To ensure that this apparently high number of resources used could be justified within the context of budget-conscious health services, the author developed the idea of clearly calculating and reporting on the ‘economix’ of the approach. The article also outlines the practice of ‘bookmarking’ with clients, which became a pivotal practice. The paper concludes with a poignant and reflective postscript given the tragic event of Jay’s death at her own hand.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Songs as re-tellings
- by
Therese Hegarty
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes a practice of writing songs to record the interviews and outsider-witness responses in a group setting. The participants have a history of heroin addiction and are involved in a stabilisation program.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Spreading the news: Coping tricks from the Sickle Cell Clinic
- by
Sarah Lunn
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
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 well alongside the disease. The narrative steps taken to enable this project are documented as the author describes her experiences and learnings from this day.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Standing up to the messages of stress
- by
Fiona Robertson and Leanne Schubert
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Stress management in Community Health has historically been based on the medical model. Collaboration with other professionals and consumers supported our notions that this approach invited people to feel incompetent in the face of stress. Presented with this challenge, we attempted to apply narrative ideas to this issue in a group work context. The following is an account of a narrative approach to ‘stress’ as experienced by clients and therapists.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Stories about home
- by
Leonie Simmons
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Leonie Simmons was born in Vietnam and adopted to an Australian family. Five years ago she returned to the place of her birth. This thoughtful and carefully written paper describes her journey and her efforts to deconstruct taken-for-granted ideas about culture, identity, family and home. It will be of relevance to anyone interested in ways of making home and making family as well as to those connected to the issue of inter-country adoption.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Stories from the Room of Many Colours: Ritual and reclaimation with people wishing to make changes to drug and alcohol use
- by
Deidre Ikin
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this paper, Deidre Ikin describes her work in The Room of Many Colours, the location of group conversations with people migrating from a life dominated by alcohol and drugs. Drawing on some challenging therapeutic situations, Deidre first gives an account of using a definitional ceremony to respond to a particularly painful account of trauma near the end of one group meeting. She also describes the work of one woman in preparing the Rainbow document, an ‘insider’s’ guide for mothers and child protection workers to use in determining when conditions are right for children to return home. These practice-based accounts are followed by a discussion of ethics and orientation when working in relation to substance misuse and child protection.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Stories of Living and Dying
- by
Lorraine Hedtke
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Just as there are stories of love, there are stories of death; and then there are stories of love that grow even in the face of death. This paper talks of those who have died as well as those who have lived on, carrying the legacies of their loved ones, as well as those who found love and hope and courage to tell the stories of connection and remembering and community. Aspects of this paper relate to preparing for dying.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Stories of pride and survival: From the Romany people
- by
Sissel Wilmena Daabous
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this evocative paper, Sissel Wilmena Daabous conveys some of the history of the Romany people (sometimes known as Travellers) and their rich skills of survival. This paper also describes Sissel's attempts to develop ways of working with her people which are based on Romany culture, values, and skills, and which will be relevant to any practitioner who is interested in developing ways of working that are appropriate to their own culture and context. This paper was crafted from an interview and was delivered as a keynote address at the 8th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference, which was held at Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway, June 2007.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Stories of sorry, forgiveness and healing
- by
Audrey Kinnear
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Dulwich Centre Newsletter
Summer, pp. 11-13
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Struggling for dignity in a time of crisis
- by
Truid Foss
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes the experience of a therapist who experienced psychosis and was hospitalised as a result. Turid’s experiences of her time on the ward have led to her questioning many taken-forgranted practices. This paper is a powerful invitation to all mental health practitioners to think differently about how we respond to those in crisis, to acknowledge the support and care offered between ‘patients’ within psychiatric wards, and to question and dismantle the artificial separation between ‘professionals’ and 'those who experience mental health difficulties’. This paper was crafted from an interview and was delivered as a keynote address at the 8th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference, which was held at Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway, June 2007
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Surviving Juvenile Justice: Imagination, kindness and a toasted sandwich
- by
David Denborough and Sarah
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This interview with Sarah, who spent much of her late childhood within juvenile justice institutions, describes her experiences in these places and the ways in which imagination and occasional acts of kindness made all the difference. It is hoped that this interview will be of relevance to other young people who are currently within juvenile justice settings, and to those adults who previously spent time within them. It is also hoped that it will be relevant to those working with young people as it clearly demonstrates the significant differences that caring workers can make. The interviewer was David Denborough.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Taking a defiant stand against sexual abuse and the mother blaming discourse
- by
Mary Freer
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article is concerned with the experience of women when their children have been sexually abused. It is based on a qualitative feminist research study.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Taking a journey with young women who are subjected to sexual abuse within families
- by
Delphine Yau Cheuk-wai
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The local context in Hong Kong, poses a number of challenges in working with young women who have been sexually abused. This paper describes the author's efforts to develop helpful and hopeful ways of responding that privilege young women's local knowledge and skills in dealing with the effects of abuse. The use of externalising conversations, the journey metaphor, therapeutic documents and the development of groups are all discussed. So too is the need to address the acts of rejection and anger that are directed towards many young women by family members when they disclose their experiences of abuse.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Tales of travels across languages: Languages and their anti-languages
- by
Marcela Polanco & David Epston
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper is a collaboration between an apprentice bilingual translator/ narrative therapist (Marcela) and one of the originators of narrative therapy (David). Studies of translation and bilingualism offer interesting and useful contributions to the renewal of narrative therapy. As narrative ideas migrate cultures, these crossings can enrich, acculturate, and diversify narrative practices.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Talking about children and young people who have abused
- by
Lesley Porter and Mary Jo McVeigh
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In many professional spheres it is becoming commonplace to use words like ‘perpetrator’, ‘abuser’ and ‘offender’ to describe children and young people who have sexually abused others. We are concerned about these trends and this paper is an attempt to outline these concerns and to offer some alternative considerations for therapists working in this challenging area.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Talking with men who have used violence in intimate relationships
- by
Tod Augusta-Scott
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Tod Augusta-Scott works with men who have used violence in their intimate relationships. This interview considers a number of key themes in this work, including ways of inviting men to consider the effects of their violence; ways of exploring expressions of shame and remorse; the importance of developing alternative story-lines of respect and responsibility; approaches to group work; and the use of documentation. The interview also provides Tod with the opportunity to reflect upon his own work practices and performance of masculinity. The interviewer was David Denborough.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Talking with mothers and children: An intake questionnaire
- by
David Denborough and Maksuda Begum
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This questionnaire is designed as a supplementary intake tool. It has been developed in recognition of the particular experiences of mothers of children with disabilities. This intake tool has two purposes. Firstly, it enables the counsellor to learn about the particular skills and knowledge of mothers and children that can later become a focus for therapeutic conversations. Secondly, it is structured in a way that assists mothers to get in touch with their own skills and knowledges, and provides a healing way for the counsellor to respond.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Teaching narrative practices - a series of exercises
- by
White et al
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this journal issue, we are pleased to be publishing a range of practical narrative teaching exercises. This builds upon a long-standing interest in how narrative practices can be taught and learned. An early version of the Dulwich Centre Newsletter (1989/90) focused on ‘Family therapy consultation and teaching’ and this was then followed eleven years later by a special issue on ‘Learning Narrative Therapy’ (2001, Nos.3&4). As narrative practices then started to be taught in many different contexts and cultures, an issue of the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work featured papers on ‘Teaching and Supervision’ (2002, No.4) from a wide range of countries. More recently, we have written about some of the challenges and possibilities associated with organising training programs in ways that are congruent with narrative practices (White & Denborough, 2005). The collection included here offers something quite different. Here, for the first time, teachers from Russia, USA, Australia and Canada have shared some of the particular exercises which they use to engage therapists who wish to learn how to put narrative ideas into practice. We hope that readers will be able to try these exercises in their own contexts.
| |
Price: AUD
$25.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Team Garra: Using the Team of Life to facilitate conversations with Brazilians living in Sydney
- by
Viviane Oliveira
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper outlines an application of the ‘rites of passage’ and ‘migration of identity’ metaphors from narrative therapy and community work, in conversations with Brazilian immigrants in Australia. The author also employed the ‘Team of Life’ methodology, which was highly culturally-relevant, given the Brazilian people’s love of soccer/football, as well as the ‘narrative timelines’ methodology and ‘definitional ceremony’ map of narrative practice.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The gender binary: Theory and lived experience
- by
Julie Tilsen, David Nylund and Lorraine Grieves
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The acronym ‘GLBTQ’ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) is widely used to describe those individuals who inhabit spaces outside of the heteronormative standard. Yet the term ‘transgender’ is often not well understood and may be treated as an afterthought, if considered much at all. This paper focuses on interrogating the gender binary (male/female) which has created the context for gender transgression. Examples of deconstructing questions that highlight the social construction of gender and an examination of therapy with non-trans-identified partners of transmen are offered as ways to apply queer theory in an effort to expose the impact of the gender binary on people’s lives. Reflections from a queer-identified woman on her experiences as the partner of a transman are shared in response to this paper.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The 'Mighty Oak': Using the 'Tree of Life' methodology as a gateway to the other maps of narrative practice
- by
Janelle Dickson
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes using the ‘Tree of Life’ narrative therapy methodology with a young man who was experiencing bullying, and had himself engaged in anger and aggression. This thorough account of narrative practice shows how a ‘stand-alone’ methodology like the Tree of Life can be a ‘jumping off’ point for using the other maps of narrative practice, including re-authoring conversations, re-membering conversations, definitional ceremony, and therapeutic documents.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The Mother-Daughter Project: Co-creating pro-girl, pro-mother culture through adolescence and beyond . . . the construction and deconstruction of mother-daughter discourses
- by
SuEllen Hamkins et al
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper documents the work of a group of mothers and daughters to deconstruct dominant discourses about mother-daughter relationships, and to create and sustain pro-girl and pro-mother cultures in their lives. This inspiring article will be relevant not only to therapists and community workers, but also in readers' own relationships with mothers and/or children. Also contained in this download is a reflection on this project by Anita Franklin.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The origami of remembering
- by
Lorraine Hedtke
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Much work in the context of grief focusses on 'letting go' and 'saying goodbye' to those who have died. The ideas in this paper offer an alternative path - instead, finding ways to honour and 'keep alive' the relationship with the person who has died can be sustaining and hopeful. This paper introduces the metaphor of 'origami of remembering', using it to describe the process of folding and re-folding the stories of people's lives and how they are linked to those who have passed away.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The reversal of light and sound
- by
Tom Andersen
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this interview, which took place in Tromsø, Norway, in June 1997, Tom Andersen traces the history of his work with reflecting team processes and the possibilities that this work has created.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The same in difference: The work of the Peer Counsellors of the Irish Wheelchair Association and the National Council for the Blind of Ireland
- by
Various authors
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes the work and insider-knowledges of the Peer Counsellors of the Irish Wheelchair Association and the National Council of the Blind of Ireland. Created from a series of interviews, this paper consists of four parts: 'history', 'why we are involved in this work', 'insider-knowledges', and 'principles of practice'. This paper questions taken-for-granted assumptions, and offers practitioners alternative ways of responding to the experience of disability.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The story of the just Tasmania Coalition 1999-2000
- by
Flanagan, Jo
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
We receive many requests for papers that describe how narrative ideas can be used within community development approaches. This paper describes such an example. The Just Tasmania Coalition was created to discuss the ever growing gulf between the rich and poor communities, the declining public services and the increased marginalisation of people living on low incomes. This piece describes the creative and hopeful approaches used by the Coalition, including the use of narrative practices.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The taming of Ferdinand: Narrative therapy and people affected with intellectual disabilities
- by
Fiona McFarlane & Henrik Lynnggaard
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this paper, Fiona McFarlane and Henrik Lynggaard, two clinical psychologists from England, show how they engaged with a young woman affected with intellectual disabilities in conversation informed by narrative therapy. They discuss how, after a difficult beginning, they manage to find a way of communicating that engaged the woman and how they involved her partner as a resource to the process.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The tree of life project
- by
Ncazelo Ncube
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes the use of narrative ideas in work with vulnerable children in Southern Africa. How can the lives of children who have experienced significant losses be responded to in ways that are not re-traumatising and that bring to light children’s own skills and knowledge? What sorts of exercises can be used in camps for vulnerable children? How can children be provided with significant experiences that do not separate them from their families, values and cultural norms? This paper describes a creative adaptation of the ‘Tree of Life’ exercise informed by narrative therapy principles and practices.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The use of narrative therapy to allow the emergence of engagement
- by
Jackie Bateman & Nigel White
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores options for engaging young people who have engaged in sexually harmful behaviours, as well as inviting their family members into conversations about responsibility and safety. Several scenarios are provided that explore common themes in this work, as well as some of the diverse challenges that can be present, including denial that the abuse has occurred, how to host conversations respectfully, and how to continue to find entry points to difficult conversations with families and foster carers. The article also details how to develop Safe Care Plans, as well as ‘Helping Team Meetings’, two practices which the authors have found useful in working with sexual abuse committed by children and young people. The article ends with feedback letters from a young person and a family member who were involved in this process.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The use of outsider-witnessing in a prison setting
- by
Debra Smith and Jeanette Gibson
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
An innovative program involving ‘outsider witnessing’ was developed in a prison in Victoria, Australia. This program was known as the ‘Inside/Outside’ program because it involved inviting members of the community to act as outsider witnesses to the stories of those incarcerated in the prison. This paper describes this program and the impact it had on all involved.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The Work of the Hearing Voices Network
- by
The Hearing Voices Network
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
These five papers describe in detail the work of the Hearing Voices Network in Manchester, UK. These five papers will be invaluable both for those working with people experiencing auditory hallucinations and also voice-hearers themselves.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Therapist as host: Making my guests feel welcome
- by
Jodi Aman
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper provides an account of how the metaphor of ‘therapist as host’ can shape therapeutic practice. It describes a range of ways in which those seeking counselling can be welcomed to the experience of therapy. Particular attention is paid to welcoming children. Considerations relating to the physical aesthetics of consulting rooms, marketing, documentation and the use of websites are discussed.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
These are not ordinary lives
- by
ACT Mental Health Cons. Network & Dulwich Centre
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper contains stories, skills and knowledges that were described during a two-day gathering for 'consumers' of mental health services in Canberra, Australia. This gathering was preceded by detailed consultations that were shaped by narrative therapy ideas and the gathering itself was organised and structured around a series of definitional ceremonies. This paper records the stories that were told on the gathering in the hope that these will be of assistance to others.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
To be a healer, not a jailer: Implications for therapists in moving beyond punishment
- by
Kenneth V Hardy
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Looking at the ways children are treated in families, to the role of punishment in institutions, to the role of punishment in the history of the USA, this influential paper by Ken Hardy invites all practitioners to question this society’s over reliance on punishment and to create alternative ways of living, working and relating to one another.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Towards a different kind of unity
- by
Ron Estes
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
Ron Estes is a student advocate at Fremont High School, in the USA. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, Ron spoke to a number of science classes to respond to their experiences of the event. This paper acknowledges Ron’s initial discomfort going into such a situation, as well as the conversations and ideas that came from the meetings with the students. This paper will be offer practical ideas to those who work with young people, especially those needing to respond to young people after crisis events.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Towards a Healthy Community: the work of Latino Health Access
- by
America Bracho et al
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The following articles focus on the work of Latino Health Access, an organisation in Orange County California, which acts as an institute of community participation. In a range of ways, Latino Health Access involves local residents in addressing health concerns in their own neighbourhoods. There are many stories to tell about this work – stories of re-creating hope and pride. These stories relate to events and projects that have taken place over the last five years and have involved a diversity of people – from residents, to volunteers, to community health ‘promotores’ (promoters), to local business people. The process of creating this publication involved a series of interviews which took place during a number of visits that Cheryl White and David Denborough made to Latino Health Access in 1999. David Denborough transcribed and edited these interviews into a draft which was then distributed amongst Latino Health Access workers. From this process various suggestions and changes were made and a further series of interviews took place which were incorporated into the text. Those who were interviewed to create this document ranged from seven years of age to elders of the community
| |
Price: AUD
$19.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Trauma, meaning, witnessing and action
- by
Kaethe Weingarten
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper is an interview with Kaethe Weingarten, who directs the Witnessing Project, and is author of Common shock: Witnessing violence every day - how we are harmed, how we can heal. The interview explores some key themes around trauma, meaning, and witnessing, including concepts such as 're-humanising practices', compassionate witnessing, and witnessing as ethical involvement. The thought-provoking and hopeful ideas in this paper will be especially useful for people engaged in work related to trauma, violence, illness, and broad community / social action projects.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Turning depression on its head: Employing creativity to map out and externalise depression in conversations with young women
- by
Sarah Penwarden
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores the counter-effects of creativity on depression, and gives an example of creative narrative therapy strategies in externalising and storying depression in conversations with young women at a New Zealand high school.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Turning the spotlight back on the normalising gaze
- by
Jane Hutton
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores notions of what it means to be ‘normal’ in modern Western culture, and the attendant relationships with normative judgement and the ‘normalising gaze’. One option for deconstructing these practices in everyday life – to both address the operations of power within normative judgement, and to address experiences of personal failure – is the ‘failure conversations map’ employed in narrative therapy. This map is outlined through one of the authors’ own application of it to her relationship with her daughter, as well as an exploratory use in some therapeutic conversations.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Unimuseums join others against violence
- by
Anne Stringer
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper documents the story of Sarah and her children as they come to terms with the history of violence in their family and this had affected each of them in different ways. It acknowledges the influence violence can have on every single member of a family. Significantly, this paper also describes the novel ways in which this family addressed the effects of violence in their lives. If you are working with women and/or their children who are coming to terms with the effects of violence in their lives, this paper will convey hopeful possibilities and practical ideas.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Up the steep side of the queer learning curve: Some things I've learned about sex, gender and sexuality
- by
Mary Heath
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article uses stories about everyday life to explore ideas about sex, gender and sexuality. It questions the dominant idea that there are only two sexes and two genders, and that sex should always be congruent with gender, drawing on queer theory – and intersex and transgendered people's life stories. It also examines the challenges bisexuality and queer theory present to dominant ideas about sexuality, proposing that there are more than two sexualities, and that sexuality can change depending on time, circumstances, and other factors. The author suggests that people who believe that their own sex and gender are uncontroversial have much to learn from paying thorough attention to the richness of human diversity rather than accepting the dominant two-sex, two-gender story. She suggests that refusing to accept the limitations of the accepted accounts of sex, gender and sexuality opens the way to exciting conversations on these subjects. These conversations, and the social change which they are making possible, have much to offer to people who fit within the dominant models of sex, gender and sexuality as well as those whose lives are currently erased and denigrated by them.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Using a Scaffolding Distance Map with a young man and his family
- by
Mark Hayward
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper addresses the questions:
1. How can people become more knowledged about their lives, more in touch with those problem-solving skills and knowledges that even young people exercise routinely in everyday life?
2. How can I render these knowledges visible, significant and relevant so they can form a basis for addressing current predicaments?
3. The gap between the familiarity of their problem experience and the not-yet-known of problem-solving knowledges – how is this space to be traversed?
4. In trying to bridge this gap, where should I place my questions? And how should the questions relate to each other?
I describe my early efforts to interpret and utilise Michael White’s Scaffolding Distance map.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Using letters in school counselling
- by
Katy Batha
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores the creative use of therapeutic letters in a school counselling context. A number of different types of therapeutic documents are described including letters of introduction and invitation, letters of reflection, letters to keep contact, and letters to summarise co-research.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Using narrative approaches with a young girl in India
- by
Kalyani Vishwanatha & Uma Hirisave
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper summarises conversations with a ten-year-old girl in India, using ideas and practices from narrative therapy to revise a relationship with fear and ‘helplessness’. The paper also includes a discussion of children and mental health issues in India, and suggestions for school-based early intervention programs for children at risk of developing emotional problems.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Using the 'failure conversations map' with couples experiencing fertility problems
- by
Razi Shachar
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
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 normalising judgement, and details how the failure conversations map offers a response to this.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Using therapeutic documents: a review
- by
Hugh Fox
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The use of therapeutic documents is a key aspect of narrative practice. This paper describes four different categories of document – letters recording a session, documents of knowledge and affirmation, news documents, and documents to contribute to rites of passage. Examples of each of these documents are offered here and the author also shares some of his experiences, dilemmas and learnings in creating therapeutic documentation. Keywords: therapeutic documents, therapeutic letters, narrative therapy
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Voices from Bali: Responding to the October bombing
- by
Muhammad Arif et al
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This piece has been created as a response to the bombing that took place in Bali in October 2002. It describes some of the ways in which the effects of two bombs in Kuta continue to haunt the people of Bali. This piece is about grief, about responses to loss and violence, and about the people of Bali – Australia’s neighbours.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
What a relief! The influence of narrative ideas in the work of a relief teacher
- by
Anne Quirk-Tootell
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
The intention of this paper is to discuss how the use of narrative ideas and practice has influenced Anne as a relief teacher/facilitator within the educational system. After working within many schools and with diverse age and cultural groups, Anne began to introduce narrative ways of working to the classroom. This is her story, and richly describes the dilemmas, hopes and new possibilities that have flowed from her explorations.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
What the Wildman, the Dragon-Arguing Monster and Camelia the Chameleon taught me about externalising conversations
- by
Maggie Carey
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In this paper, Maggie Carey relates three engaging stories about her use of externalising conversations with children. In doing so, this paper illustrates the diversity of metaphors that are engaged with in externalising conversations and the ways in which the knowledges, imagination, and stories of children can be an intricate part of therapeutic conversations and how these can be shared between families.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
When your child is diagnosed with schizophrenia: The skills and knowledges of parents
- by
Amanda Worrall
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This article documents work with a group of parents in Central Australia who have a son or daughter who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The first part of the article collects some of the parents’ reflections on the effects of schizophrenia on their lives and their ways of responding to them, while the second part is a collective document produced with the group about their skills and knowledges. This group work has led to the production of a larger booklet for the wider community, as well as networking and partnering with local community mental health organisations, and advocacy and lobbying of politicians and health services.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Working in the worlds of children: Growing schools, families, communities through imagining
- by
Elspeth McAdam & Peter Lang
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes the use of appreciative enquiry within schools and school communities in England, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, and in Southern Africa. Elspeth and Peter describe the thinking that informs their work and offer a series of hopeful examples.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Working with adolescents who have committed sexual abuse: Establishing a new place to stand
- by
John Stillman
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
A central goal of treating adolescents who have committed sexual abuse is to reduce the risk of future offences. In order to achieve this goal and for the sake of the children who have experienced abuse, alternative means of treating older children who have perpetrated abuse are needed. This paper will discuss a way of going about such treatment which offers these older children something different than strengthening the label they have as sex offenders. When working with young men who have perpetrated abuse, establishing a 'new place to stand' before discussing the abuse opens up new possibilities in conversations. This paper explores these possibilities.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Working with tradtional structures to support a collaborative clinical practice
- by
William Madsen
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper explores how to meet requirements for formal clinical paperwork in a way that is based on an ethic of collaboration and accountability. Using this approach, traditional clinical paperwork at the stages of ‘assessment’, ‘treatment planning’, and the ‘termination process’, – documents which previously could have been objectifying and further pathologising of people – can instead become collaboratively-produced therapeutic documents. This paper also explores some of the real effects of the current requirements for documentation and measurement, and suggests that practitioners should ‘take care to measure what is valuable rather than simply valuing what is measurable’.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Writing at the interface of therapy, academic and community education cultures
- by
Jane Speedy
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
In describing the relationship between therapy, academic and community education cultures, particularly the different forms of writing practices that occur within them, this paper seeks to contribute to a conversation about the development of a ‘community of narrative practice’ involving teachers and learners within all three realms.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Young men, angry language and the language of anger
- by
Mark Trudinger
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
After starting a Young Men’s Anti-Violence project which involved running workshops on issues of ‘gender and violence’ and homophobia, Mark and his colleagues were often asked to run workshops to assist young men to ‘manage’ their anger. Despite reservations, they developed and ran a workshop on this topic. This paper discusses many of the issues that arose, as well as ideas behind the concept of young men and anger. It provides a range of practical ideas and suggestions as to ways of speaking with young men about anger.
| |
Price: AUD
$9.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Little by little we make a bundle
- by
Yvonne Sliep & the CARE Counsellors
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes ways of engaging with communities in externalising conversations. It includes examples of conversations that took place in a number of villages in rural Malawi in relation to HIV/AIDS. Yvonne Sliep and the CARE counsellors developed a particular way of facilitating these conversations. One worker plays the role of Mr/Mrs AIDS, who represents HIV/AIDS; and another plays the role of Mr/Mrs CARE, who represents the community. Members of the village are invited to ask questions of these two characters, and a conversation develops.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The Journey: A narrative approach to adventure-based therapy
- by
Aileen Cheshire & Dorothea Lewis
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This paper describes a narrative approach to adventure-based therapy. The journey described is both physical and metaphorical.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
Deconstruction and therapy
- by
Michael White
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This early influential paper casts certain practices of therapy within the frame of deconstruction.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The externalizing of the problem and the re-authoring of lives and relationships
- by
Michael White
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
This is an early paper (1988) by Michael White: "I have written this paper in response to the many requests that I have received from therapists to provide a more particular account of the practics associated with the externalizing of problems ... After a discussion of some of the more central ideas and practices associated with the externalizing of problems, specific aspects of these practices are more closely reviewed. This is followed by some discussion of the dominant cultural practices that provide the context for the 'thingification' or 'objectification' of persons through the imposition of certain forms of individuality that are 'capturing' of them. The practices associated with the externalizing of problems are proposed as counter-practices to these dominant cultural practices".
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
|
| |
The process of questioning
- by
Michael White
| |
This item can be downloaded once purchased.
| | Description:
'The Process of Questioning: A therapy of literary merit?' is an early influential paper by Michael White setting a framework for an approach to therapy based on curiosity and cooperative endeavour.
| |
Price: AUD
$15.00
| |
|
|
| |  | |  |
| |
