Full Description
A third edition of this classic guide to understanding narrative therapy.
Narrative therapy is founded on the idea that the mental health issues we bring to therapy are not restricted to or located solely within ourselves. We experience ourselves as deeply relational (not individual), and we are shaped by and imbedded within prevailing historical and socio-economic contexts, dominant cultural understandings, and normative expectations of what constitutes a 'healthy' individual.
This third edition of Narrative Therapy introduces psychologists, next generation practitioners, and veteran narrative therapists to a broad range of foundational ideas alongside the latest state-of-the-art narrative theoretical ideas and practices. The book provides a wide range of up-close demonstrations, session transcripts, remarkable therapeutic questions, and numerous updated clinical examples to provide a coherent balance between narrative therapy's theoretical complexities, and the nuts-and-bolts of therapeutic practice. Readers receive step-by-step guidance in:
Relational responses to trauma, abuse, and the body
Working with highly conflicted couple relationships
Narrative practice and psychedelic medicines
Updated relational practice approaches to grief, loss, and death
Collective ethics for suicide prevention
Disordered eating
New innovations in therapeutic letter writing
Gender violence and complex trauma
Narrative therapy with trans youth and families
Narrative therapy with children and families
Contents
Series Preface
Preface
How to Use this Book With APA Psychotherapy Videos
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Brief History
Chapter 3. Theory
Chapter 4. Narrative Therapy Practice
Chapter 5. Evaluation
Chapter 6. Recent Developments and Future Directions in Narrative Therapy
Glossary of Key Terms
Suggested Readings
References
Index
About the Author
About the Series Editors
