By Sonia Abels MSW
A transparent consultant to at least one of present day preferred therapy modalities, this quantity explores why the narrative metaphor is necessary within the healing dating, and the way to include narrative ideas into social paintings perform. development on simple insights approximately how tales form people's lives, and the way harmful tales should be changed, the authors discover a number of purposes of the narrative procedure. those purposes comprise undertaking teams, operating with multicultural consumers, and supplementary school room discussions.
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They aid persons to find meaning in their lives and to make sense of the complex events leading to their present situation. It facilitates re-authoring and provides an opportunity to shape the story of the desired future. Narrative practice deals with stories that shape the lives of persons and helps them examine how these stories might both help and hinder them from achieving what they seek (Parry & Doan, 1994; White & Epston, 1990). Often a specific aspect of their current story has brought them for help; it is the first story the helper hears, and the one to which he/she must respond.
We might wonder, are the stories the family tells about itself just a way to record its history, or do they serve other purposes? These stories, according to Langellier and Peterson (1994), are often a form of social control. The story of how Mom met Dad, the courtship, the struggles; how an uncle was a hero in the war; how grandma crossed the mountains in a covered wagon, suggest ways of being, and often are aimed at giving direction. Rarely do our parents want us to find out about the skeletons in the closet.
I am reminded, however, of an earlier time, when stories had been an important part of the lives of children I worked with. I had been the program director at a camp for handicapped children years before. They particularly liked me telling them the Brer Rabbit stories. They were excited about how Brer Rabbit would outsmart the Fox. At that time I had some glimpse of the idea that stories in which the theme showed the "underdog" outsmarting the powerful might have special meaning to these children.
