Narrative therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps clients identify their own values and the skills associated with them, empowering people to recognize their capacity to live according to those values while addressing present and future challenges. Through collaborative dialogue, the therapist helps the client construct an alternative personal story by exploring the origins of the client's own principles. Characterized as a social-justice-oriented practice, narrative therapy aims to contest harmful cultural narratives that negatively shape people's experiences, and though it developed primarily within family therapy, practitioners have extended it into community, educational and academic settings.
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Central QuestionHow can a person be helped to co-author a new narrative about themselves by investigating the history of the values that matter to them, so they can confront current and future problems? 1 Founded Year Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Narrative therapy
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The therapist seeks to help the patient co-author a new narrative about themselves by investigating the history of those values.
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In what specific year should narrative therapy's founding be dated: 1983, when Michael White established the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide, or 1990, when White and David Epston published Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, the book that brought the approach to wide attention?
Wikipedia's own Narrative therapy article states only that the approach was developed during the 1970s and 1980s by Michael White and David Epston, with no single founding year named; the Michael White biographical article separately dates the Dulwich Centre's founding to 1983 and the field-defining book to 1990, leaving which year properly marks the school's founding unresolved.
What would resolve this A source that explicitly states which single year the discipline treats as narrative therapy's founding, or an explicit editorial convention here for dating an approach that developed gradually over two decades.
history of psychotherapyWikipedia: Narrative therapy
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