Narrative Approaches in Psychotherapy

Code:

PCS18

Acronym:

ANP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Psychology

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MPSI	11	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2021	1	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This UC has the following objectives:
- Epistemologically framing the emergence of narrative approaches in psychotherapy;
- To present the main assumptions of narrative models;
- To characterize the type of therapeutic relationship associated with the implementation of narrative models;
- To present some specific narrative models used in clinical intervention;
- To illustrate with clinical cases of different age groups the application of narrative therapies;
- To encourage students to analyze cases, reflect and be able to identify the intervention.

Learning outcomes and competences

With the frequency of this UC, students are expected to be able to:
- Enunciate and explain the central assumptions of narrative therapies;
- Know the existence of different models of narrative psychotherapy;
- Know in detail the congitive-narrative model proposed by O. F. Gonçalves;
- Know the reauthorship model' intervention components;
- Obtain skills in eliciting narratives and discursive analysis in clinical assessment and intervention contexts;
- Obtain skills in reading cases in the context of a narrative framework.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The program of this UC includes the following aspects:
1. Exposure of constructivist influences on cognitive models and emergencies of narrative therapies;
2. Exposition of the influences of social constructionism and emergencies of narrative approaches in the context of family therapies;
3. Presentation of the central assumptions and characteristics of “creation therapies”;
4. Identification of different narrative therapies;
5. Detailed presentation of the cognitive-narrative model;
6. In-depth presentation of the narrative model of reauthorization;
7. Various skills training exercises for applying the reauthor model to adults and children.
8. Analysis of therapeutic narrative therapy sessions;
9. Exploration of other narrative media, such as writing letters, diaries, building the life story in a clinic with adults and in a clinic with children, including the realization of practitioners for the purpose;
10. Monitoring the case and planning the intervention with the same.

Mandatory literature

Denborough, D. ; Collective Narrative Practice: Responding to individuals, groups and communities who have experienced trauma., Dulwich Centre, 2008
Freedman, J. & Combs, G.; Narrative therapy: the social construction of preferred realities., Norton, 1996
Gonçalves, M., & Henriques, M. R.; Terapia narrativa da ansiedade: Manual terapêutico para crianças e adolescentes. , Psiquilibrios, 2000
Gonçalves, O. F. ; Viver narrativamente. , Quarteto Editora, 2000
Madigan, S. ; Narrative Therapy., American Psychological Association, 2019
White, M. ; Maps of Narrative Practice. , 2007

Complementary Bibliography

White, M. ; Guías para una terapia familiar sistémica. , Gedisa, 1997
Ncube, N. ; The tree of life project: Using narrative ideas in work with vulnerable children in Southern Africa., International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 1, 3–16., 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

The methodologies used include:
1. Expository presentation of theories, their assumptions, concepts and central constructions;
2. Presentation of narrative intervention models, illustrated with examples of real cases.
3. Realization of specific exercises taken from the literature and prepared by the teacher for the training of skills in the context of the narrative models under study;
4. Guided viewing of videos and analysis of transcribed therapeutic sessions;
5. Strategies for following up a case;

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	30,00
Trabalho escrito	35,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho escrito	38,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The assessment implies the presence in 75% of the classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

The assessment is based on the weighted sum of the grades obtained in the following activities: 1. Presentation of a narrative activity prepared for the follow-up client (30%); 2. Carrying out two small assessment tests (35%); 3. Presentation of a detailed analysis of a therapeutic session, carried out in a small group (35%).

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with the regulations for this purpose.

Classification improvement

It is not planned.