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	Psychology: CBT vs Narrative Therapy
		Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) draws on the phenomenological philosophy as propounded by Husserl (Leahy, 2003) whilst narrative therapy, according to Roberts and Holmes (1999) changes its theoretical background with the type of narrative used; psychodynamic narratives draw upon Freudian theories while feminist narratives draw upon feminist and Marxist critical theories.
		Narrative therapy is based on the hypothesis that the act of narration gives a patient insight into the reasons for the actions of the protagonists in their life (Lieblich, McAdams and Josselson, 2004).
		Some CBT techniques draw on narrative therapy, such as the eliciting of patients' thoughts, which is done by allowing the patient to tell their story, allowing the therapist to visualise their thought processes (Leahy, 2003).
	www.socyberty.com /Psychology/Psychology-CBT-vs-Narrative-Therapy.128680 (1053 words)

	NarrativeFamily Therapy
		Narrative therapy is also distinct in that it draws on 'postmodern' theoretical writings, concerned with the possibilities and implications of language.
		Narrative therapy is built upon a number of basic assumptions, many of which originate in the post-modern, constructivist, and social constructionist schools of thought.
		Narrative therapy is based on the notion that it is impossible for human beings to obtain a completely objective knowledge of the world.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~cfigley/Book/BTT/Narrative.htm (3980 words)

	Narrative Therapy: a brief description by Dr Bob Rich.
		Narrative Therapy: a brief description by Dr Bob Rich.
		Narrative Therapy was developed by Michael White and David Epston.
		Narrative therapy is a search for events which prove these beliefs to be false.
	www.hotkey.net.au /~bobrich/psych/narra.html (342 words)

	Bay Area Marriage and Family Counseling, Oakland,San Francisco counselor, Sport coaching (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Narrative therapy seeks to be a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives.
		Narrative therapists are interested in joining with people to explore the stories they have about their lives and relationships, their effects, their meanings and the context in which they have been formed and authored.
		Narrative therapists, when initially faced with seemingly overwhelming thin conclusions and problem stories, are interested in conversations that seek out alternative stories – not just any alternative stories, but stories that are identified by the person seeking counselling as stories by which they would like to live their lives.
	clearway.org /Narrative_Therapy.html (4359 words)

	Narrative Space: Erik Seween's article
		If narrative therapy had one slogan, it would be: "The person is never the problem; the problem is the problem." This phrase captures the importance attached to who a person is, regardless of his or her circumstances.
		Narrative therapy provides a means to refocus the lens on this camera and help reshape a person's stories and life.
		Narrative therapy is interested in the stories we live by - those stories we carry with us about who we are and what is most important to us.
	www.narrativespace.com /sween.html (1043 words)

	What is narrative therapy?
		Narrative therapy seeks to be a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives.
		Narrative therapists are interested in joining with people to explore the stories they have about their lives and relationships, their effects, their meanings and the context in which they have been formed and authored.
		Narrative therapists, when initially faced with seemingly overwhelming thin conclusions and problem stories, are interested in conversations that seek out alternative stories –; not just any alternative stories, but stories that are identified by the person seeking counselling as stories by which they would like to live their lives.
	www.dulwichcentre.com.au /alicearticle.html (4327 words)

	Narrative Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Narrative therapy is based on the post-modern idea that reality is subjective, and is socially constructed through language.
		In narrative therapy, the therapist explores with the "client" a narrative of events which is less problematic.
		Narrative therapy also maintains a "A Not Knowing Stance" which is based on the idea that therapists have knowledge of the therapeutic process, but not the content and meaning and peoples' lives.
	socialpolicy.ca /52100/m15/m15-t9.stm (98 words)

	Narrative Therapy \| Serendip's Exchange
		Narrative therapy places a strong emphasis on the role that society and culture play in the development of personal struggles, and thus may prove especially effective in working with ethnically and culturally diverse families (Woodcock, 2001; Allison, 2003; Freeman and Couchonnal, 2006).
		Narrative therapists believe that people are not their problems, and the process of externalization helps clients to see that they are less confined by their stories, and to focus instead on experiences providing exceptions to their problems.
		Narrative therapy embraces the concept of relative truth, yet also employs the very scientific strategies of exploration, observation, and the gathering of evidence to support or refute the dominant narrative.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /exchange/node/577 (4785 words)

	Narrative therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Narrative Therapy is a form of psychotherapy using narrative, with an approach to helping people that was developed during (and has evolved since) the 1970s and 1980s, in good part by Australian Michael White and his friend and colleague, David Epston, of New Zealand.
		The Narrative Therapist is a collaborator with the client in the process of discovering richer ("thicker" or "richer") narratives that emerge from disparate descriptions of experience, thus destabilizing the hold of negative ("thin") narratives upon the client.
		Although different Narrative Therapists work somewhat differently (for example, Epston uses letters and other documents with his clients, though this particular practice is not essential to narrative therapy), there are several common elements that might lead one to decide that a therapist is working "narratively" with clients.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Narrative_therapy (723 words)

	Narrative Psychology: Psychotherapy & the Healing Arts
		Narrative approaches to psychotherapy are represented in the published literature by a range of professional journals.
		While narrative is not the focus of this Elservier journal, its articles cover a broad range of creative and expressive therapies which often employ narratively-related approaches to the treatment and understanding of clients and patients.
		Employ's Spence's (1982) concept of narrative truth to understand the psychotherapeutic process and the constraint therapists face in losing the "one true meaning" of their own metanarrative of a patient's life if this approach to understanding therapy is valid.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~hevern/nr-ther.html (4343 words)

	VOICES-MAIN ISSUES 7(3)- Eyre: The Marriage of Music and Narrative: Explorations in Art, Therapy, and Research
		That the process of using autobiographical narrative and music improvisation provoked contemplation of one's life is not surprising, but it was unexpected that this group of participants who have been habituated to the use of music and words as a means of expression, would find greater meaning in the experience than they expected.
		For example, while recounting the life story in the narrative, some participants felt removed from the emotions and perceived the experience to be a more "in the head," however, while listening to the narratives, the connection to their feelings was re-established.
		Feelings were experienced through somatic reactions during the music and the narrative for one participant; the experience of playing was a cathartic release that liberated her emotions, whereas in the narrative the physical feeling was an unpleasant tightening of the chest.
	www.voices.no /mainissues/mi40007000247.php (6647 words)

	APT - Narrative Therapy
		In recent years interest has grown in narrative approaches to therapy, and there is a need for a course that teaches a full range of sound, practical techniques that can be applied immediately to a wide variety of clients presenting with a wide variety of problems.
		Narrative techniques based on stories: how to create and tell myths, legends, fairy stories and animal stories, and how to select and use them with your clients.
		The course introduces delegates to a wide variety of narrative techniques that can be used with a wide variety of clients (individuals and groups, including children and adolescents, the elderly, and offenders) presenting with a wide variety of problems.
	www.apt.ac /narrative (440 words)

	Sweetser / Training / Narrative Conversations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Narrative Therapy assumes that people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them in reducing the influence of problems.
		The word "narrative" refers to the emphasis that is placed upon the stories people create about their lives and the differences that can be made through particular "versions" of these stories.
		Narrative Therapy seeks out ways to understanding the stories, as well as ways of re-authoring them in collaboration with a therapist or community worker.
	www.sweetser.org /training/narrative.html (274 words)

	About Narrative Therapy
		Narrative therapy is a respectful and collaborative approach to counselling and community work.
		Often by the time a person has come to therapy the stories they have for themselves and their lives become completely dominated by problems that work to oppress them. These are sometimes called ‘problem-saturated’ stories.
		In essence, within a narrative therapy approach, the focus is not on ‘experts’ solving problems,...it is on people discovering through conversations, the hopeful, preferred, and previously unrecognized and hidden possibilities contained within themselves and unseen story-lines.
	www.narrativetherapycentre.com /index_files/Page378.htm (334 words)

	Kenwood Center
		Kenwood Therapy Center was established in 2000 to provide comprehensive individual, couple and family therapy for children, adolescents and adults.
		Narrative Therapy is a growing set of ethically based and innovative therapy practices which recognize that people use narrative (or story) to make meaning of their lives and to construct their identities.
		Narrative therapy assumes that people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives.
	www.narrativebooks.com /therapy/about.html (706 words)

	Towards a "Common Sense" Deconstruction in Narrative Therapy by Terri L. Kelly
		According to Bill Lax, one of the directors of Narrative on Tour, The Dulwich Centre (where he practices, in Adelaide, Australia) premises "Narrative Therapy" on the idea that people's lives and relationships are shaped by the stories that people tell and engage in to give meaning to their experiences.
		Narrative therapy has particular links with family therapy and those therapies which have a common respect for the client, and an acknowledgement of the importance of context, interaction, bonding, and the social constructlon of meaning (Lax, 1999).
		Narrative therapy arises out of recognition for a postmodern view of how we internalize information, as opposed to the modernist "talking cures" upon which psychology has relied upon.
	web.pdx.edu /~psu17799/eng595.htm (1736 words)

	CEU Station - Michael White and Narrative Therapy
		Bio - Though Michael White has been one of the seminal figures in founding narrative therapy, the details of his own personal narrative -- as opposed to the development of his ideas regarding therapy -- are hard to come by.
		The primary focus of a narrative approach is people's expressions of their experiences of life.
		Expressions cannot be considered a static reproduction of some experiences that they refer to: they are not 'maps of the territory of life', not 'reflections of life as it is lived', not 'mirrors of the world', and not 'perspectives on life' that stand outside of what is going on.
	www.ceustation.com /michaelwhite.html (1337 words)

	CG Jung Page - The One Minute Question: What is Narrative Therapy?
		1) If narrative therapy had one slogan it would be: "The person is never the problem, the problem is the problem." This phrase captures the importance attached to who a person is regardless of his or her circumstances.
		Narrative therapy is interested in the stories we live by--those stories we carry with us about who we are and what is most important.
		Narrative therapy proposes that only those experiences which are part of a larger story will have significant impact on a person's lived experience.
	www.cgjungpage.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=831&Itemid=40 (1094 words)

	Narrative Space: learn about narrative therapy
		Narrative space refers to an incredibly vibrant and hopeful way of viewing, interacting and living in the world.
		Narrative space is where people find openings to deal with their pain, identify alternate preferred stories for their lives, experience authentication for those stories through tellings and retellings, and share and work with others with similar interests.
		The creating of narrative space, narrative therapy, and narrative work in general is based on post-structuralist or non-structuralist thought.
	www.narrativespace.com (326 words)

	Narrative Therapy
		Narrative therapy reverses the claims (claiming strengths in face of domination), and the story to be restoried and resituated in preferred stories of being (reclaiming Aboriginal knowledges).
		Narrative therapy was "identified by Aboriginal health works in different parts o f Australia as more appropriate to Aboriginal culture than the more conventional Western mental health approaches" (AHC 1995: 3).
		Narrative "Therapy is built on the notion that people are not the problem, but that th e relation a person has to a set of resources for making sense of their situation can position people 'in' problems.
	cbae.nmsu.edu /~dboje/narrativetherapy.html (1339 words)

	narrative training associates - narrative therapy training for mental health professionals (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Narrative therapy, postmodernism, social constructionism and constructructivism : Discussion and distinctions.
		Henely, A. Stories that have hart: narrative practices with children and their families, Special issue: narrative mind and practice in child and youth care, Journal of Child and Youth Care, 9(2), 21-30.
		Lichtenstein, T., and Baruch, R. (1996), "I was born from the earth": Reconstructing the adoption narrative in the treatment of a preadolescent girl.
	www.narrativetherapy.org /bibliography.html (4427 words)

	Narrative Therapy
		Narrative therapy has particular links with Family Therapy and those therapies which have a common ethos of respect for the client, and an acknowledgement of the importance of context, interactlon, and the social constructlon of meaning.
		This view of Michael White's, who is one of the founders of this therapeutic approach, draws on a range of theoretical views as to the nature of language, conversation, and the way people come to make sense of their 'being-in-the-world' that we are aiming to provide access to here.
		The main electronic forum for narrative therapy issues is the MFTC-L listserver for discussion of issues related to marriage and family therapy or that are of interest to marriage and family therapists.
	www.massey.ac.nz /~alock/virtual/narrativ.htm (883 words)

	Telecourses - Yaletown Family Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Narrative Therapy telecourse brings the stimulation and intellectual exchange of professional training to you with the immediacy and convenience of a conference call.
		The telecourse offers you in depth narrative social justice and brief therapy training without the hassle or expense of having to get on a plane, make a hotel reservation or take unpaid days off work.
		Narrative Therapy handouts, readings and lists of therapeutic questions specific to each hour of conversation will be emailed to the telecourse participants.
	www.yaletownfamilytherapy.com /telecourses (507 words)

	QUT \| Library \| Finding information resources in narrative-based therapies
		Narrative therapy : an introduction for counsellors / Martin Payne
		For a list of print and electronic narrative-based journals, perform a search on keywords and phrases such as "narrative therapy", "narrative" or "psychotherapy" on the Library Catalogue and limit to Periodicals (using the periodicals option in the drop down box to the right of the search).
		When searching databases for journal articles on narrative-based therapies, the term "narrative therapy" may not always be used.
	www.library.qut.edu.au /subjectpath/narrative_based_therapies.jsp (1085 words)

	Michael White; narrative therapy co-founder; 59 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Narrative therapy has been used successfully to help bed-wetting children distance themselves from shame and anxiety so they can consider their condition more objectively and not necessarily as a permanent character flaw.
		White often traveled abroad to present case histories and refinements of narrative theory and was on a similar journey in San Diego – a national conference on narrative practices at the University of San Diego – when he died.
		Although narrative therapy has had relevance in treating anorexia, school-related anxiety and problems common in children and young adults, its uses continue to broaden.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20080429/news_1m29white.html (557 words)

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