Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

Counseling in a narrative way is a way of seeing, hearing, and thinking about clients’ problems as shaped and given meaning by stories or narratives. Problems are not hard realities that permanently define people; rather, they are problem stories by which people know themselves and are known by. This separating of the problem from the person opens up space for seeing the problem and thinking about it in new ways, and opens up the possibility of authoring a better story—a better way of being and doing, and is based on what has become a narrative mantra: “The problem is the problem. The person is not the problem” (Winslade & Monk, 1999, p. 2)

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Originally published as chapter 30 of The Quick Theory Reference Guide: A Resource for Experts and Novice Mental Health Professionals, (pp. 445-460). Nova Science.

ISBN-13: 978-1600216244

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