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- Title
Honoring and Privileging Personal Experience and Knowledge: Ideas for a Narrative Therapy Approach to the Training and Supervision of New Therapists.
- Authors
Carlson, Thomas D.; Erickson, Martin J.
- Abstract
This article discusses an approach for the training and supervision of new therapists built around social constructionist and poststructuralist ideas from a narrative therapy perspective. We briefly discuss some of the pitfalls of current training/supervision in marriage and family therapy (MFT) that are deficit based and/or that disproportionately grant privilege to expert knowledge. We articulate this emerging training approach which utilizes the rite of passage metaphor, centers relationalism, and incorporates the honoring and privileging of new therapists' lived experience, knowledges, skills, talents, ideas, morals, personal ethics, values, beliefs. Concrete practices of experience privileging, re-membering, and creating communities of concern are detailed, and illustrative examples from our supervision work are given.
- Subjects
FAMILY psychotherapy; SOCIAL constructionism; POSTSTRUCTURALISM
- Publication
Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, 2001, Vol 23, Issue 2, p199
- ISSN
0892-2764
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1011150303280