What are the benefits of memoir therapy?
Memoir therapy allows people to not only find their voice but to use their voice for good, helping them to become experts in their own lives and to live in a way that reflects their goals and values. It can be beneficial for individuals, couples, and families.
Why is memoir therapy important?
Memoir therapy helps us to understand how texts work, and it gets us thinking about the choices that the author has made. After all, there’s always more than one way of telling a story.
What is the role of the therapist in memoir therapy?
As a therapist or other mental health professional, our job in memoir therapy is to help client find their voice and tell their story in their own words. According to the philosophy behind narrative therapy, storytelling is how we make meaning and find purpose in our own experience (Standish, 2013).
How is storytelling therapeutic for children?
Metaphors, stories and fables are tools of therapeutic intervention as they allow children to express their thoughts and feelings and thus gain a deeper understanding of themselves. Through storytelling, children develop a personal voice, expressing their unique way of thinking and feeling.
What are the limitations of memoir therapy?
Memoir Therapy can be challenging when the individual is not articulate. Lack of confidence, intellectual capacity and other issues could also undermine the expression of the individual through a narrative.
Is memoir therapy post modern?
Narrative therapy- is a postmodern approach to counseling that is based on counselor characteristics that create an encouraging climate where clients see their stories from different perspectives.
What is the goal of postmodern therapy?
The goal is to deconstruct (take apart) the dominant story, examine alternative narratives, and ultimately construct rich rather than impoverished personal narratives.
How can memoir therapy help with family or couple therapy?
With postmodern concepts as a foundation for narrative therapy, this therapeutic method becomes a collaborative and non-pathologizing approach to family and couple therapy that respects and promotes people as the experts of their own lives. Narrative therapy interventions treat problems as separate from people.