So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice.

So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice. Each of the ten chapters is written in the series of letters personally addressed to a real student who is learning how to do narrative therapy at a narrative therapy agency. Each letter highlights the most useful discoveries during the authors' years of practicing in a narrative therapy agency, both as a therapist and as supervisors. Each letter also contains transcripts from therapy sessions showing the principles and practices in action and ends with a therapeutic poem that was given to the client based on their own words from a therapy session. While written for narrative therapists at any level of experience, this book is especially useful for graduate-level theory courses in therapy training programs in counseling, psychology, social work, and family therapy.

Autorentext

Sanni Paljakka is a registered psychologist and codirector of the Calgary Narrative Collective, where she also serves as the director of clinical training where she supervises practicum students. Tom Stone Carlson, PhD, is a professor at Alliant International University in the Couple and Family Therapy Program.

Klappentext

So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice. Each of the ten chapters is written in the series of letters personally addressed to a real student who is learning how to do narrative therapy at a narrative therapy agency. Each letter highlights the most useful discoveries during the authors' years of practicing in a narrative therapy agency, both as a therapist and as supervisors. Each letter also contains transcripts from therapy sessions showing the principles and practices in action and ends with a therapeutic poem that was given to the client based on their own words from a therapy session. While written for narrative therapists at any level of experience, this book is especially useful for graduate-level theory courses in therapy training programs in counseling, psychology, social work, and family therapy.

Inhalt

Letter 1. What's So Narrative About Narrative Therapy?: A Letter About Stories and Story-Work

Letter 2. What's Riding Us?: A Letter About the Master's Narratives

Letter 3. What's Problematic About Calling It a Problem?: A Letter About Dilemmas

Letter 4. When Externalizing Internalizes: A Letter About Narrative Diagnoses

Letter 5. Why Are You in Therapy?: A Letter About Up Against Stories

Letter 6. Whose Story Is It?: A Letter About the Agentive Turn

Letter 7. What Do You Want to Do, Love?: A Letter About Counterstories

Letter 8. What if We Aren't Angels?: A Letter About Interesting Protagonists

Letter 9. What is Beautiful and What is Ugly?: A Letter About Moral Reading Prompts

Letter 10. What Now?: A Letter About Writing as an Antidote to Despair

Epilogue: Dear Student