Maps of Narrative Practice provides brand new practical and accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice that White has developed and taught over the years, so that readers may feel confident when utilizing this approach in their practices. The book covers each of the five main areas of narrative practice-re-authoring conversations, remembering conversations, scaffolding conversations, definitional ceremony, externalizing conversations, and rite of passage maps-to provide readers with an explanation of the practical implications, for therapeutic growth, of these conversations. The book is filled with transcripts and commentary, skills training exercises for the reader, and charts that outline the conversations in diagrammatic form. Readers both well-versed in narrative therapy as well as those new to its concepts, will find this fresh statement of purpose and practice essential to their clinical work.
ISBN-13: 9780393705164
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton - W. W. & Company - Inc.
Publication Date: 05-17-2007
Pages: 320
Product Dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d)
Series: Norton Professional Bks.
Michael White (1948–2008), one of the founders of narrative therapy and co-director of the Dulwich Centre, an institute for narrative practice and community work in Adelaide, Australia, made significant contributions to psychotherapy and family therapy. He is the author of Maps of Narrative Practice and co-author of Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
Externalizing Conversations 9
Re-Authoring Conversations 61
Re-Membering Conversations 129
Definitional Ceremonies 165
Conversations That Highlight Unique Outcomes 219
Scaffolding Conversations 263
Conclusion 291
Suggested Reading 293
References 295
Index 297
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