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Learn a narrative approach to working with clients who are dealing with anxiety and depression. Narrative therapists help people externalize their problems through increasingly complicated stories that they tell about themselves, a process that is guided and encouraged by the narrative therapist. This class is accessible for people new to narrative therapy and those with more experience.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of the course, you will have learned:
- Basics of narrative therapy
- Narrative philosophy about depression and anxiety
- Uses of narrative therapy to help people re-author stories of despair or lack of control into richly detailed stories of meaningful actions, intentions and identity
- A detailed look at how certain kinds of questions help clients externalize depression and anxiety, richly detail their individual experience of what has been called depression or anxiety, and reconnect to the skills they already have for getting away from/over/around/defeat depression and anxiety
- How to avoid burn-out using strategies of decentering the therapist