PSYC-3740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Narrative Therapy, Enmeshment
1 Nov 2018
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Michael white, david epstein, jill freedman, gene combs. Concerned with the ways people construct meanings rather than the ways they behave. Clients are thought to be stuck in unproductive ways o perceiving their experiences and their potions. Narrative therapist help them reexamine the stories of their lives and see that they have acted more bravely than they realize, and that they have more options than they thought. Central assumption is that the way people interpret their experiences has a powerful in uence on their lives. Use constructivism (constructivism is a philosophy of learning founded on the premise that, by re ecting on our experiences, we construct our own understanding of the world we live in) to explain how people can re-author their life stories. Emphasized helping people organize to escape the oppression of problems. People"s problems are seen as a product of the stories they hold about themselves.
