Narrative Therapy Process Analysis

The Narrative Therapy Process Narrative therapy is unique to the idea that they are no specific rules and guidelines that should be followed in one specific way. However, there are what could be considered techniques that help the Counselor guide the client to understand and re-write their stories and change outcomes. A Narrative therapist may use the idea of externalizing conversations as another way to engage a client in therapy. The idea behind externalizing conversation is to get the client to a place where they understand that the problem they are having can be separated from who they are as a person. A therapist may name, objectify, or personify the problem in an effort to have the client understand they and the problem are not one

Narrative intently focuses on the stories that individuals have created for their lives based on experience throughout their lives. Whereas Solution Focused Therapy does not care about how the individual got to counseling or the details involved in their feeling, these therapists are more focused on the finding the solution to the problem (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013). A Solution Focused therapist wants to work with the client to find the solution no matter what the why may be. Solution focused therapist are not interesting in talking about the problem, unlike Narrative therapist who seek to find the reasoning or story behind the problem. One thing these two therapist do have in common are the way the counselor interacts with the client. In each of these therapist the counselor works collaboratively with the clients to seek that ultimate healthy functioning end goal. Each of these therapies take a close look at the communication and language that takes place by the clients. In Narrative, the counselor listens in an effort to understand the assumptions a client has created and why (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013). Where a Solution-Focused therapist uses the language and interactions of the client can be used to obtain a workable solution. These two therapist may have the same healthy functioning overall goal for counseling, but the journey and the path that

Throughout this program, much of the focus has been on therapies and techniques and how they affect people on an individual level. This class pushed one to think beyond individual therapy and imagine what a future working with families and the familial impact would look like. Future counselors are forced to take a look at their own family and the specific family roles one have created for themselves and their upbringing. It becomes easy to take notice of the possible coalitions, alignments, and shifts of power that have may be created in one’s life. Even if those specific characteristics are not currently deep enough to disrupt the family unit at this time, it is important to know and recognize these boundaries and eliminate or control them before they have the ability to cause disruption within the family. Specifically looking at Narrative Therapy, one may not have been previously aware that the ideas and reactions that one has in their mind were made up based on the expectations and assumptions based on how others would feel or react. Most individuals should be able to look at their life and think about some of the responses they may have on a daily basis in life and be able to trace this response back to an earlier assumption. An individual can then look at this assumption and choose to change it in a way