2015: Issue 2 Archives - The Dulwich Centre

Naming problems as political action— Ron Findlay

Dulwich — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:04:11 +0000

There is no ‘Political Practices in Therapy Hall of Fame’ but it can be fun to imagine one. If so, which narrative therapy practices might we propose for membership and why? This piece explores a few of the author’s favourite candidates which relate to naming problems in externalising conversations. This piece also emphasises how ‘therapeutic’ narrative practices are ‘political practices’.

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Helping the helpers: An Employee Assistance Program responds to hospital trauma— Kevin Geraghty

Dulwich — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:01:34 +0000

This article describes the evolution of services provided to employees of a regional medical center who experience traumatic incidents in the course of their work. The author provides a policy and procedure document and a detailed description of how the services are structured. In closing, he offers a shift of perspective, moving from ‘getting over’ trauma to deciding how it might be helpfully remembered.

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Leaving a legacy’ and ‘Letting the legacy live’: Using narrative practices while working with children and their families in a child palliative care program— Linda Moxley-Haegert

Dulwich — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:58:01 +0000

This article provides an overview of narrative practices used with children who are dying and their families in a hospital palliative care setting. Narrative practices of subordinate storyline development, remembering conversations and definitional ceremony, living documents, and collective narrative practice, are used to allow children to ‘leave a legacy’, and for parents to ‘let the legacy live’. This piece also includes reflections on working in bilingual contexts, as well as some ethical considerations of working with children in oncology settings.

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Consulting young people about living with cancer— Carolyn Ng

Dulwich — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:48:48 +0000

This article draws on the narrative therapy concept of ‘consulting your consultants’, and documents the skills and knowledges of young people who are living with cancer. The young people offer their ideas about how to think about aspects of cancer in externalised ways; ways of focusing on living, rather than dying; the life lessons and skills they have learnt from family members; and how their skills and knowledges might be helpful for others.

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Saying hullo, goodbye, or both? Multi-storied re-membering practices to assist women in the transition after the loss of a male partner to suicide— Marnie Sather

Dulwich — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:43:29 +0000

This paper explores the complex experiences of women who have lost a male partner to suicide after experiencing violence from that partner. These circumstances often result in women trying to rise from the ‘stigma’ of violence and suicide. This paper describes how using multi-storied re-membering narrative practices creates space for women to speak of their multitude of experiences. These stories illuminate agency and hopes for the future for the women. They also offer ways free of a double taboo: in relation to suicide and in relation to men’s violence against women.

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The ‘Life Certificate’: A tool for grief work in Singapore— Mohamed Fareez

Dulwich — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:38:13 +0000

This article proposes an alternative to the formal, impersonal document of the death certificate – a ‘Life Certificate’, a narrative therapeutic document to honour the lives of lost loved ones. The article shows examples of the ‘Life Certificate’ used in practice, as well as a six-stage map of narrative practice that can be used in conjunction with it, to help renegotiate people’s relationships with grief.

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Holding our heads up: We have lost loved ones to suicide and want to share stories not stigma A resource for families who have lost loved ones to suicide Compiled— Marnie Sather and David Newman

Dulwich — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:36:57 +0000

Within these pages are stories and wisdoms from many people who have had to deal with a suicide of a loved one. They have been generously shared from diverse places: Australia, Denmark, Israel, Nigeria, South Africa, United States, Canada, Brazil, Hong Kong, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

Amongst honouring the heartache and loss of the suicide of a loved one, these stories also shine a light on the often small acts that people use to get through such an experience.

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