Narrative Family Therapy: A Special Issue

White, Cheryl; Denborough, David

doi:10.1002/anzf.1050

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“…Geeki, Randall, Lampshire and Read (2012) highlight the positive impact of reclaiming the power to tell one's own story, borrowing Shotter's (1981) term 'authoring' (or 're-authoring') and White's (2001) contribution through Narrative Therapy. The PATH example visually noted distress as a life learning symbol reflected in the plan.…”

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Panning for Gold: The personal journey of mental health wellness and its relationship with Planning Alternatives Tomorrows with Hope (PATH)

Armstrong¹,

Dorsett

2015

JOSI

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This study explored how the Planning Alternatives Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) process could enhance and strengthen an individual’s personal journey of recovery. This article utilised the knowledge base of members of a Community of Practice, located in Brisbane Australia. Members had a deep concern and passion to promote and strengthen wellbeing for people who live with the experience of mental ill health. They were invited to form a focus group to explore the use of PATH and its relationship with mental health wellness. After contemplating and reflecting on an example of the PATH process, the focus group explored opportunities for PATH to become one of many wellness resources for people experiencing and overcoming mental ill health. Through the exploration of personal meaning, storytelling and community connection (anchored in the visuals and graphics of the PATH example), the study found that PATH can make a valuable contribution by restoring some of the power inbalances in traditonal service frameworks and enhancing personal self direction.

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Panning for Gold: The personal journey of mental health wellness and its relationship with Planning Alternatives Tomorrows with Hope (PATH)

Armstrong¹,

Dorsett

2015

JOSI

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“…Tree of Life (TOL) is a psychosocial strengths-based group intervention founded on creative/expressive and narrative therapy concepts (White & Denborough, 1998). Ncazelo Ncube, a trauma counsellor and narrative therapist, developed TOL while working with traumatised children in Southern Africa (2006).…”

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“…Researchers Carey and Russell (2003) and Schweitzer et al (2014) have identified five narrative principles that underlie TOL: it explores alternative stories of self; enhances group cohesion and relational belonging; provides corrective emotional experiences; allows outsider witnesses to acknowledge and validate new self-stories and narratives; and instils hope for the future. Practice-based anecdotes suggest that TOL has shown positive outcomes with various populations, including students in the United Kingdom (Nolte et al, 2016), staff in a palliative care setting (Nolte et al, 2016), adult trauma survivors (Reeler et al, 2009), and young Indigenous Australians (White & Denborough, 1998). Reported outcomes included improved coping and change in perspective (Reeler et al, 2009), and increased confidence in talking about and coping with emotional difficulties (Nolte et al, 2016).…”

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Tree of Life: Acceptability and Feasibility With Older Bosnian Women of Refugee Background

Khawaja¹,

Murray²,

Sadeed³

2022

Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia

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There is a growing awareness that mental health issues of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals from refugee backgrounds can benefit from therapeutic intervention to promote wellbeing. However, there are numerous barriers to services for these populations. There is increasing recognition that culturally sensitive and safe therapeutic and counselling models are needed, particularly for people less likely to engage with mental health services. Consequently, researchers have begun exploring psychosocial approaches, such as Tree of Life, a relatively new narrative-based intervention which uses creative and expressive tools to enhance personal strengths and resilience. This study used a qualitative methodology to assess the acceptability and feasibility of Tree of Life in a community setting with older Bosnian women from refugee backgrounds. Five women with a mean age of 72 years attended a 6-week intervention. They provided feedback at the end of each session and participated in a focus group after the intervention. Three participants were also interviewed following the intervention. Facilitators documented their observations and any issues with the intervention process. Qualitative data revealed Tree of Life as an acceptable and feasible intervention for this population and suitable for further testing. Further, participants reported that they found the approach beneficial. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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Ethical Family Therapy: Speaking the Language of the Other

Larner¹

2015

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Derrida tells us languages are bearers of culture that are never neutral but always political; they impose a kind of cultural violence on the persons who speak them. If to speak a language is to participate in a form of political violence, then one challenge for family therapy becomes ethical: how to avoid forms of linguistic oppression that impose a language on others. Such ethics take precedence over questions of epistemology or approach: theory, knowledge, and language are in the service of others. As narrative, systemic, or dialogical family therapists, we speak the language of therapy so others can speak their own discourse and form their own language community. However, to be called a ‘therapist’ there is also a responsibility to help others in the best way possible, which may require speaking non‐relational, evidence‐informed professional discourses. The paper discusses an ethical family therapy as one that engages a range of therapeutic discourses while speaking the language of the client. This is illustrated by a practice example of integrative family therapy with a depressed, self‐harming, and suicidal teenager.

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Narrative Family Therapy: A Special Issue

Cited by 3 publications

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Panning for Gold: The personal journey of mental health wellness and its relationship with Planning Alternatives Tomorrows with Hope (PATH)

Panning for Gold: The personal journey of mental health wellness and its relationship with Planning Alternatives Tomorrows with Hope (PATH)

Tree of Life: Acceptability and Feasibility With Older Bosnian Women of Refugee Background

Ethical Family Therapy: Speaking the Language of the Other

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