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The narrative processes coding system: Research applications and implications for psychotherapy practice
Author(s) -
Angus Lynne,
Levitt Heidi,
Hardtke Karen
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199910)55:10<1255::aid-jclp7>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - narrative , psychology , coding (social sciences) , psychotherapist , session (web analytics) , psychology of self , narrative inquiry , social psychology , computer science , sociology , social science , philosophy , linguistics , world wide web
The Narrative Processes model is focused on the strategies and processes by which a client and therapist transform the events of everyday life into a meaningful story that both organizes and represents the client's sense of self and others in the world. Some investigators have elected to use clients' within session descriptions of relationship events or micronarratives as their unit of narrative analysis. In contrast, we are centrally interested in the development of the macronarrative framework in which the singular events described in a therapy relationship—micronarratives—come to be articulated, experienced, and linked together in such a way that the client's sense of his or her life story—in essence, the sense of self—may be transformed at the conclusion of the therapeutic relationship. The following paper details the Narrative Processes theory of therapy and the coding system that has been developed to identify and evaluate empirically key components of the model. Findings emerging from the analyses of successful psychotherapy dyads are described and the implications for future research and practice are discussed. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 55: 1255–1270, 1999.