Playful Approaches to Serious Problems Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families

by Epston, David; Freeman, Jennifer; Lobovits, Dean

• ISBN13: 9780393702293
• ISBN10: 0393702294
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This book describes a basic theory of collaborative narrative play, as well as verbal and nonverbal techniques that clear the way for stories of hope, possibility, and change. Compelling case examples, drawn from the authors' work, will appeal to parents and educators as well as therapists.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(4)
Introduction	xiii
1 PLAYFUL COMMUNICATION	3	(142)
1 Playful Communication in Family Therapy	3	(31)
2 Getting to Know the Child Apart from the Problem	34	(13)
3 Stories of Hope	47	(21)
4 Parents in Child-Inclusive Family Therapy	68	(26)
5 Thinning the Plot, Thickening the Counterplot	94	(18)
6 Building a Narrative through Letters	112	(13)
7 Publishing the News	125	(20)
II PLAYFUL MEANS	145	(78)
8 Therapies of Aesthetic as well as Literary Merit	145	(27)
9 Unlicensed Co-therapists	172	(7)
10 Weird and Special Abilities	179	(14)
11 Family Politics in Action	193	(11)
12 An Imagination of One's Own	204	(19)
III PLAYFUL STORIES	223	(71)
13 Jonathon: "I Have Overcome That Much and I Don't Think I'll Be Able to Go Back"	223	(10)
14 Tony: "The Spiritual Boy Is Fine"	233	(17)
15 Jason: "I'm Lighting My Own Lantern Now"	250	(15)
16 Sophia: "I Won't Make a Place for You in My Heart, But I'll Make a Place for You in My Skin"	265	(13)
17 Terry: "So after a Long Time in Horror I Live in Peace Again"	278	(16)
Concluding Thoughts	294	(3)
Notes	297	(6)
References	303	(8)
Index	311