Assessment System of Narrative Change

Abstract

Different schools of family and couples therapy understand and promote change differently. First-order therapeutic models assume that change should happen in communication and interaction. Second-order therapies focus on narrative transformations that promote and reflect epistemological and functional changes in interpersonal and intrapersonal aspects. For this reason, second-order therapies are more focused on the way change occurs in client constructions, stories, attributions, and perspectives on problems and solutions (Friedlander & Heatherington, 1998;Gurman, Kniskern, & Pinsof, 1986).Narratives are "stories in discourse formats with a sequential order that connect events in a significant way, in relation to an audience and that favors visions about the world and about intervenient experiences" (Hinchman & Hinchman, 1997, as cited in Elliott, 2005 3). Speech, time, and the coherence and meaning of the stories are central assumptions about the key narrative functions: intelligibility and significance. They are constructed through language negotiation between subjects in relation to each other. Life narratives can also be condensations and abstractions that contain parts of events and circumstances that people experience. Many events occur every day in our lives, but only some of them are storied and given meaning

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