Narrative in Social Work Practice : The Power and Possibility of Story / Ann Burack-Weiss, Lynne Bamat Mijangos, Lynn Sara Lawrence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burack-Weiss, Ann.

Lawrence, Lynn Sara.

Mijangos, Lynne Bamat.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--Practice.

Social service.

Social workers.

Storytelling--Social aspects.

Storytelling.

Narrative therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Narrative in Social Work Practice features first-person accounts from social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice. Contributors describe innovative and effective interventions with a wide range of individuals, families, and groups facing a variety of life challenges. One author discusses the family crisis that ensues when a promising teenage girl suddenly takes to her bed for several years; another brings narrative practice to a Bronx trauma center; and another finds that poetry writing can enrich the lives of people living with dementia. In some chapters, practitioners turn narrative techniques inward and use them as vehicles of self-discovery. Settings range from hospitals and clinics to a graduate school and a case management agency. Many chapters illustrate the deep relationship between private troubles and public issues.Throughout, Narrative in Social Work Practice showcases the flexibility and appeal of narrative methods and demonstrates how they can be empowering and fulfilling for clients and social workers alike. It also highlights how the differential use of narrative techniques can fulfill the required core competencies of the social work profession in creative and surprising ways.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Writing as Discovery and Healing

1. Stuck

2. Garden at Vaucresson

3. Another Kind of Witnessing

Part II. Narrative Social Work with Individuals and Families

4. The Reluctant Storyteller

5. Grace Notes: Singing in Marion’s Hospital Room

6. One Family’s Experience of Falling Out of Health

7. Scheherazade

8. Sharing a Narrative Meal

Part III. Narrative Social Work with Groups

9. Storytelling and Listening

1. I Like Dancing and Singing and Prancing and Flinging

11. Jesse’s Story

12. With Every Story We Rise

Part IV. Narrative Social Work in Education, Supervision, and Research

13. Transnational Parenting

14. The Worker–Mentor Story

15. Narrative Research a

16. Reading and Writing Really Are Fundamental

Conclusion

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780231173605

0231173601

OCLC:

984655987