Narrative Therapy (COU570)

Narrative Therapy course is designed for those interested in narrative practices with individual(s) and couples in therapy. This course will feature a review of key narrative ideas and practices, including recent developments in narrative therapy: externalising conversations, re-authoring conversations, outsider-witness practices, remembering conversations, listening for alternative storylines, and documenting change.

• What is Narrative Therapy?
• Origins of Narrative Therapy
• Theoretical and Practice Innovations
• Understanding and Living Lives through Stories
• Fundamentals of Narrative Therapy
• Narrative Therapy as Systemic and Flexible Stance
• Boundaries of Narrative Therapy
• Externalising Conversations
• Re-authoring Conversations
• Re-membering Conversations
• Definitional Ceremonies
• Conversations that Highlight Unique Outcomes
• Scaffolding Conversations

• Appraise the theoretical concepts and framework underpinning narrative therapy
• Create key narrative ideas and practices in narrative therapy in local context
• Propose the integration of recent developments in narrative therapy to a given clinical context
• Construct the basic clinical skills needed in narrative therapy in local context
• Plan strategies to gain competencies in narrative therapy skills
• Design the narrative therapy technique(s)/skills appropriately in an individual or couple session