Narrative Approaches to Trauma

On completion of this course, you will be able to describe and begin to apply the narrative therapy techniques of:

• 'double listening' i.e. simultaneously listening for both the effects of trauma and the client's responses to trauma;
• 'externalising' the effects of trauma;
• eliciting and highlighting people's responses to trauma;
• building the person's preferred story with their responses;
• using their responses to restore from the trauma's effects their sense of self and identity.