revised self theory

adjustment and maladjustment

The nature of pathology

The nature of the counselling process

The nature of the therapeutic relationship

The role of the therapist

human nature

references

mycounseling lab tm

australia and new zealand journal of family therapy

biting the hand that starves you: inspiring resistance to anorexial bulimia

we are all multiversioned and multistoried

preferred story

problem saturated stories:
sth abt the story doesn't fit with their view of how things are or should be

persons organize their lives around specific meanings and...in so doing, they inadvertently contribute to the "survival" of, or what is often called the "career" of the problem

problem saturated stories:
sth abt the story doesn't fit with their view of how things are or should be

problematic narratives
ongoing conflict, not being appreciated, a continue lack of trust >> west and bubenzer (2002) p366

collaborating
re-authoring
the two make what they can out of it

travel to the client's stories together
retracting their path again and again
ultimately looking for a preferred path to a preferred place

find stories that have been obscured by the problem-saturated story

the accessment as a continuous process that is focused on understanding clients' persoectives on their lives (C. Smith, 1997)

dont do formal accessment cuz

  1. inconsistant with nt's philosophy
    (fostering strengthing the problem-saturated stories)
    pathology-oriented
    ignoring cultural and contextual factors

multiple perspectives are honored
the initial focus of therapy is on trying to grasp the local meanings and understandings of everyone involved (C. Smith, 1997, p29)

proceeds at the pace of the client (Carr, 1998

the client's language is used, or privileged, rather than the therapist'. check with the client if the counselor understands their stories accurrately and is on the right track

click to edit

personlity and how personality forms

learning and motivation of
human

mechanisms of change

goal

intervention

intro

why narrative

3-5 western value
artistic

6-25 traditional chinse culture
patriarchal
understand deeply abt how culture and the society
everything beyond the dominance become problematic
become a dominant power/ narrative

having my own voice protected my own self-concept
everytime i write my own story...i am empowered
symbolic / metophor>> allow the complexity of life to be fully experienced (v.s. dulism)