Critique Of Narrative Critique

Narrative Critique
New Knowledge and Understanding I learned that Narrative therapy helps a client to use their cognitive thinking by learning to look at a problem and themselves from a different perspective. Also, a narrative therapist helps the clients to build thinking positive with his/her own story. According to Nichols (2013), “Narrative therapist aren’t problem solvers. Instead, they help people separate themselves from problem-saturated stories (and destructive cultural assumptions) to open space for new and more constructive views of themselves” (p. 272). My understating of narrative therapy is that a client needs to stop being the victim/aggressor and be able to identify the problem as a problem. For example, I am always thinking

“Clients have reported that they reread letters Epston sent them years earlier to remind themselves what they went through and how far they have come” (Nichols, 2013, p. 281). For example, my fourth grade teacher made me to write a letter of how I envision myself three years from now. The letter was given to the teacher with an envelope. When I was in seven grade, my counselor wanted to talk to me. She pulled out from my files an envelope and gave me the letter that I wrote in fourth grade. When I read the letter, I was able to see how much I had improve over the years. My grammar got better and I was accomplishing in keeping my grades

I was raised to respect someone else privacy because it was considered to be disrespectful. According to Nichols (2013), “The therapist can also invite clients to read his or her notes if they wish” (p. 275). For example, my middle school teacher wrote her notes about my conduct in the class. When the day of parent’s conference came, the teacher would glance at her notes and read the important points to my parent. I will feel comfortable sharing my final notes that include revision with the client. However, my notes that I am writing during the session it will be difficult for me because I will think twice what to