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Here you will find more information under the umbrella of the post-modern in Sociology, Psychology and Philosophy. The implications on the field of counselling/therapy are also explored in related reading on: Narrative Therapy, Post-modern Therapy, Solution Therapy.

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Narrative Therapy:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Narrative therapy finds ways of developing insight into the stories of the client's life. A therapist using narrative therapy is interested in the history of their client. They are searching for an in depth account of the problems that are affecting the client's life. Narrative therapy is sometimes identified as having the client “re-authoring” or “re-storying” their experiences. These descriptions emphasize that the stories of people's lives are pivotal to an understanding of the individual (Morgan, 2000).

The word “narrative” refers to the importance that is placed upon the stories of people's lives and the differences that can be made through specific telling and retelling of these stories. These stories are examined like literary criticism, in which the story line is deconstructed and the plot, characters, and timeline are individually inspected for importance (Cooper & Lesser, 2005).

Every person experiences create many different stories in their life. These stories may be separate from each other, but often they occur at the same time or even overlap. It is even possible that the same event creates many different stories in a person's life. No single story can summarize a person's life, and so many stories and examination of these stories is required to help understand the person telling them (Morgan, 2000)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_therapy

http://www.philosophy.ucf.edu/pibib.html#index

http://www.narrativeapproaches.com/

http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/narrativetherapy.html

http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/narrativ.htm

http://www.narrativetherapycentre.com/

http://www.narrativespace.com/

http://www.narrativetherapylibrary.com/

Post-modern Therapy:

"If the therapist becomes wedded to technique, remaining a craftsman, his contact with patients will be objective, detached, and clean, but also superficial [and] manipulative for the sake of personal power, and ultimately not highly effective." Salvador Minuchin

http://users.california.com/~rathbone/pmth.htm
http://postmoderntherapy.com/home.html
http://www.depression-guide.com/postmodern-therapy.htm
http://users.california.com/~rathbone/shawver.htm
http://www.newtherapist.com/lois6.html
http://www.hal-pc.org/~boha/pmg.htm

Solution Therapy:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) (often referred to as simply 'solution focused therapy' or 'brief therapy') is a type of talking therapy that is based upon social constructionist philosophy. It focuses on what clients want to achieve through therapy rather than on the problem(s) that made them seek help. The approach does not focus on the past, but instead, focuses on the present and future. The therapist/counsellor uses respectful curiosity to invite the client to envision their preferred future and then therapist and client start attending to any moves towards it whether these are small increments or large changes. To support this, questions are asked about the client's story, strengths and resources, and about exceptions to the problem.

Solution focused therapists believe that change is constant. By helping people identify the things that they wish to have change in their life and also to attend to those things that are currently happening that they wish to continue happening, SFBT therapists help their clients to construct a concrete vision of a preferred future for themselves. The SFBT therapist then helps the client to identify times in their current life that are closer to this future, and examines what is different on these occasions. By bringing these small successes to their awareness, and helping them to repeat these successful things they do when the problem is not there or less severe, the therapists helps the client move towards the preferred future they have identified."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_focused_brief_therapy

www.brief-therapy.org

http://www.sfbta.org/

http://www.centrumpsr.eu/indexenglish.htm

http://www.creatingsolutions.org/

http://jeffco.us/health/health_T111_R109.htm

http://www.sf-academy.com/

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