Case Study On Narrative and Collaborative Therapy

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Narrative Therapy and Collaborative Therapy Perspective Case Study

Question 1: Narrative Case Study 

The Narrative Therapy techniques help the professionals to assess the issues faced by an individual in a non-blaming approach (Vetere & Dowling, 2016). The Narrative Therapists use several techniques which help the professionals to reveal the problems of an individual. The externalizing technique used by Narrative Therapists to identify the own values of an individual and coping the problems with those values. Identification of the common elements of a problem helps the Narrative Therapist to assess how the problem is affecting the individual’s life. In narrative therapy, the therapists emphasize on mapping the outcomes of issues and realizing how the outcomes are influencing life of the individual (Lopes et al.2014). The therapists collect the opinions of outsiders’ witnesses to analyze the effects of problems on the individual.

Question Answer between the therapist and the individual:

Externalizing questions: 
Therapist: Can you describe few situations when you got annoyed and angry?
Individual: Yes, sure. Once, my husband asked me to share my opinion regarding one of his investment decisions. That time I really felt helpless and became annoyed. In another case, he requested me to take all the responsibilities of a family-get together. Previously, I have arranged such get-togethers with help of my husband and really loved it. But, this time the thought of taking all the decision alone made me annoyed.
Identifying effects of the problem
Therapist: Can you please share how those incidents changed your life?
Individual: For the first time, my husband was surprised to see me angry as I usually do not show such expressions. In the second case, at first my husband was really upset and he was worried about me also. 

Question 2: Collaborative Therapy Perspective

The Clinician would want Lisa and her mother to attend majority of the sessions. From the case study, it is apparent that Lisa’s mother is more concerned about her than her father. In addition, she is more aware of the changes in Lisa. Mutually inquiring conversation is a collaborative technique that helps the therapists to know more about the problem faced by an individual (Strong, 2017). Therefore, with her help, carrying out the collaborative techniques such as mutually inquiring conversations would be easier.
The counselor would work as a partner with Lisa and Laura to overcome their worries. The assessment process would be a mutual process where both the therapist and the individuals work together to get rid of their problems.
Both Lisa and Laura would be target of the intervention. The strength-based practice helps the individuals to focus more on their strengths and overcome the problems (Strong, 2017). In this case, both Lisa and Laura is anxious about themselves. Focusing on their strengths would help them to get rid of the problems. 
Both Lisa and Laura have a number of positive traits. The strength based model would make them aware of the traits and make them more confident. It would help them to be less worried about the shortcomings as revealed by the deficit-based approach.
Theory of change helps the practitioners to set long-term goals for the individual with problems. In this case also, the collaborative therapy helps Lisa and Laura to set long term goals on basis of their strengths as suggested in Theory of Change practices.

References:

• Lopes, R. T., Gonçalves, M. M., Machado, P. P., Sinai, D., Bento, T., & Salgado, J. (2014). Narrative Therapy vs. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for moderate depression: Empirical evidence from a controlled clinical trial. Psychotherapy Research, 24(6), 662-674.

• Strong, T. (2017). Neuroscience Discourse and the Collaborative Therapies?. Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology: Evolving Practices in Action, 116.

• Vetere, A., & Dowling, E. (Eds.). (2016). Narrative therapies with children and their families: A practitioner's guide to concepts and approaches. Taylor & Francis.