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Creating Different Versions of Life: Talking About Problems with Children and their Parents
Author(s) -
Lundby Geir
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/anzf.1039
Subject(s) - norwegian , narrative , project commissioning , psychology , publishing , narrative therapy , developmental psychology , linguistics , literature , art , philosophy
When working with families, many parents have told us that externalizing the problem is the single most important thing they experienced in our work together. This paper describes how externalizing conversations and double‐story development can assist children and their parents talk about problems and create different versions of life. Examples from narrative family therapy conversations with two Norwegian families are included.