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- Title
Story-Based and Bottom-Up Accountability With Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Practices That Focus on Response.
- Authors
Moss, Daniel
- Abstract
Narrative and systemic therapists emphasize the context of children's stories while helping them to connect their actions, emotions and meaning making. Rather than only diagnosing and correcting the effects of trauma on the child's body and brain, narrative and systemic therapists help children to describe their responses to experiences of trauma. Therapists are challenged to operate within institutions that impose corrective accountability imperatives on children. Therapy can become accountable to educational, social, or legal institutions that require the child's conformity and co-operation. This article examines therapy that recruits children as co-researchers in the meaning-making of their life's experiences, including both the effects and their responses to experiences of trauma. In this way, therapists are accountable to a fascination with what is not yet known, rather than to the reproduction of dominant discourses of correction.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S stories; NARRATIVE therapy; INSTITUTIONALIZED persons
- Publication
Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1195-4396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/jsyt.2023.42.4.1