For this week, you will create a resource guide that highlights how relationships are influenced by trauma and narrative tools for working with trauma. Please note that this assignment can be more of a listing rather than a formal paper. Think of this resource guide as something you would pass along to fellow MFTs that allows them to see how narrative and group processes can be applied to relationship therapy.
Part 1- Description
The first part of the resource guide is a description of experiences that can be part of relationships as a result of past trauma in one or both partners.
Part 2 – The Narrative Approach
The second part of the resource guide is specific to interventions that are part of the narrative model. The readings for this week build on the narrative model and describe populations that might be influenced by trauma and how this influences relationships. Narrative tools and techniques (and adapted narrative tools and techniques) are discussed throughout the readings and can be applied to this resource guide.
Your resource guide will consider the following tools and techniques from a narrative lens. You will describe/define the tool or technique and share an example of how this might look in the therapeutic setting with relationship therapy (You can use examples from the readings, just make sure you are citing). Please consider the following tools/techniques in your resource guide:
- Not Knowing Stance
- Deconstructive Listening
- Externalization
- Reframing
- “Outside Witnessing”
- Resiliency Stories (also known as Listening for Unique Outcomes)
- Constructing New Meanings/Co-create new shared story
- Narrative Group Therapy
Length: 3-4 pages
References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.
Here are few Resourses
Johnson, D. J., Holyoak, D., & Cravens Pickens, J. (2019). Using narrative therapy in the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse in the context of couple therapy. American Journal of Family Therapy, 47(4), 216–231.
Authors bridge the idea of working with couples on trauma issues while utilizing a narrative focus.
Morgan, E., Wieling, E., Hubbard, J., & Kraus, E., (2018). The development and implementation of a multi-couple therapy model with torture survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 44(2), 235-247.
Laughlin C. F., & Rusca, K. A. (2019) Strengthening vicarious resilience in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse: A narrative approach to couples therapy. The Family Journal, 28(1),15-24.