Narrative Therapy Worksheet Overview
Narrative therapy helps you see a problem as something separate from you, so you can change your relationship with it. Family therapists Michael White and David Epston developed it after noticing that people often come to believe a problem says who they are. It can help if a problem like worry or self-doubt has started to feel like part of your identity.
This worksheet guides you to name the problem and map what it has done in your life. You then look for times it did not get its way and use them to start a new story about yourself.
In this worksheet, we’ll:
- Explain how narrative therapy separates you from the problem
- Help you give the problem a name and notice what it tells you
- Walk you through mapping its effects on different parts of your life
- Help you find times the problem did not get its way
- Provide space to write a new chapter where you are the author
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White, M., & Epston, D. (1990). Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. W. W. Norton.
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White, M. (2007). Maps of Narrative Practice. W. W. Norton.
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