Here’s what a Solution Focused Therapist does to make it work: • Helps you discover solution building rather than problem definition language when discussing your conflicts.
Category Archives: Relationship Problem Advice
Brief Solution Focused Therapy for Couples
Why we should watch what we say!
In a fascinating paper referenced below, Wendy Drewery introduces and develops the idea that conversation is a powerful means of performing relational identity – what she describes as “different ways of doing relationship and different ways of performing identity” – and suggests that “narrative therapy offers an approach to everyday as well as therapeutic conversation […]
How Dialogic Analysis can be used as an eductional tool in Narrative Therapy for Couples
A Re-Write of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” that addresses serious ethical issues with an ending in which the ward patients are encouraged to heal and grow.
This post identifies a number of serious ethical issues in the treatment of patients in the psychiatric ward in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and proposes a re-write of the story climax in which the ward patients, including McMurphy, are encouraged to engage in narrative group therapy.
The Younger Family in “Raisin in the Sun” and their struggle for fulfillment and happiness in an oppressive white society.
Synopsis of the Story The Youngers are by any measure an impressive family. A part of the great Black migration from the South, Walter Younger Sr. and his devoted wife Lena settled in a tiny, cramped apartment on the south side of Chicago successfully made a secure life for themselves and their two children, Walter […]