Narrative therapy is essentially a social constructionist way of seeing the world. Narrative therapy will give Nina the opportunity to recreate her story. The goal is to have Nina learn to externalize her strengths and engage in creating her identity. One of the major tenets of Narrative therapy is the belief that the person is not the problem and the problem is strictly the problem. The goal with Narrative therapy is to focus on externalizing the problem
Upon reviewing Marie’s case study, I have identified that her main areas of trouble are her experiences of anxiety and uncontrollable anger as well as extreme guilt, which have led Marie to self-destructive behaviors. Marie reported that she began experiencing the anger and anxiety when she learned of her parents’ divorce. The self-destructive behavior however does not appear to be caused by her parents’ divorce as Marie reported she has used this as a form of coping when she is feeling guilt. I
Case Conceptualization After watching Real Women Have Curves and reading the scenario, I would conceptualize this family utilizing a Narrative Approach. The underlying premise of Narrative Therapy is that personal experience is fundamentally ambiguous (Nichols, 2013). As seen with Carmen and Ana who both have vastly different interpretations of individual and shared experiences. Carmen appears to be a middle-aged woman of Latina heritage. She is married to (Raul), and they have two children (Ana
After 14 year old, Susie Salmon’s murder, her family is stricken with grief, as any other family would be. Each member deals with their grief in their own way. “The novel essentially functions as both Susie and her family's personal act of narrative therapy--as the discursive mechanism through which she and her survivors both grieve for her loss and attempt to fashion new means for living with such an immutable absence. In this manner, The Lovely Bones necessarily encounters the processes via which