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Narrative

24 techniques · 12 approaches
ACT
Naming the Story
Naming the Story
Instead of following the content of a thought, the client notices that it is part of a familiar story, a narrative the mind tells again and …
Adlerian
Lifestyle Metaphor
Lifestyle Metaphor
Therapist and client together create a metaphor that captures the essence of the style of life. "You are like a driver who always brakes at …
CPT
Reading the Trauma Account Aloud (CPT+A)
Reading the Trauma Account Aloud (CPT+A)
Reading the Trauma Account Aloud (CPT+A) is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps …
CPT
Writing the Trauma Account (CPT+A)
Writing the Trauma Account (CPT+A)
Writing the Trauma Account (CPT+A) is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the cl…
CoLeC
Co-Constructing Narratives
Co-Constructing Narratives
Meaning and understanding are constructed in conversation together — they are not pre-existing inside the client and not brought in by the t…
CoLeC
Problem-Dissolving Through Dialogue
Problem-Dissolving Through Dialogue
Anderson and Goolishian introduced the notion of the "problem-organizing, problem-dissolving system": a problem is not an "objective reality…
CoLeC
Problem-Organizing System
Problem-Organizing System
Anderson and Goolishian introduced the notion of the "problem-organizing system": the therapeutic system includes not the "family" or the "c…
EFT for Couples
Creating a New Relationship Narrative
Creating a New Relationship Narrative
Helping the couple tell the story of their relationship anew — including the crisis and the way through it. The new narrative integrates dif…
Frankl
Your Life in the Movies
Your Life in the Movies
The client is invited to imagine that their life is a film they are watching from the outside as a viewer. The exercise activates self-dista…
Gottman
Oral History Interview
Oral History Interview
A structured interview about the history of the relationship that allows the couple's foundation to be assessed by HOW they tell their story…
MBT
Clarification
Clarification
A second-level intervention aimed at clarifying the factual and emotional details of the client's experience. In MBT, clarification is not j…
MBT
Mentalizing Narratives
Mentalizing Narratives
A technique of joint creation of a coherent, meaningful narrative about the client's life with a focus on mental states. In MBT the case for…
Narrative
Externalization
Externalization
A Narrative technique for making experience, meaning and relationship more observable while preserving the client's agency.
Narrative
Landscape of Action and Identity
Landscape of Action and Identity
A Narrative technique for making experience, meaning and relationship more observable while preserving the client's agency.
Narrative
Statement of Position Map 1
Statement of Position Map 1
A Narrative technique for making experience, meaning and relationship more observable while preserving the client's agency.
PE
Emotional Engagement During Imaginal Exposure
Emotional Engagement During Imaginal Exposure
A core PE technique in which the client revisits the trauma memory aloud in the present tense so that the fear structure can activate and up…
PE
Managing In-Session Avoidance
Managing In-Session Avoidance
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
TF-CBT
Cognitive Processing of Maladaptive Trauma Cognitions
Cognitive Processing of Maladaptive Trauma Cognitions
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Conjoint Parent-Child Session
Conjoint Parent-Child Session
A TF-CBT caregiver technique that prepares the nonoffending adult to understand trauma symptoms, respond supportively, and become a safe res…
TF-CBT
Gradual Exposure
Gradual Exposure
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Hot Spot / Peak Moment Processing
Hot Spot / Peak Moment Processing
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Psychoeducational Bibliotherapy
Psychoeducational Bibliotherapy
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Trauma Narrative Development
Trauma Narrative Development
A central TF-CBT technique in which the child gradually creates and processes a trauma narrative in a safe, age-appropriate format.
Yalom
Life Review (Yalom / Butler)
Life Review (Yalom / Butler)
A review of life as a coherent, meaningful narrative: turning points, lessons, legacy, unfinished matters. Butler developed this method for …
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