Narrative Therapy with Older Clients

Kropf, Nancy P.; Tandy, Cindy

doi:10.1300/j018v18n04_02

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“…Although widely practiced throughout the world, NT remains underresearched (Busch, 2011;Chenail, DeVicentis, Kiviat, & Somers, 2012;Etchison & Kleist, 2000). Some qualitative process research studies (Matos, Santos, Gonçalves, & Martins, 2009;Moreira, Beutler, & Gonçalves, 2008) and several case studies (Betchley & Falconer, 2002;Cashin, 2008;da Costa, Nelson, Rudes, & Guterman, 2007;Draucker, 1998;Kropf & Tandy, 1998;Nylund, 2002;Palgi & Ben-Ezra, 2010;Rothschild, Brownlee, & Gallant, 2000;Young, 2008) suggest positive outcomes for a wide range of problems and disorders. However, only one of these qualitative studies (Kropf & Tandy, 1998) has addressed the effectiveness of NT for depression, and none have done so in a controlled clinical trial.…”

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Narrative Therapy vs. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for moderate depression: Empirical evidence from a controlled clinical trial

Lopes

Gonçalves

Machado

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Psychotherapy Research

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Narrative Therapy vs. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for moderate depression: Empirical evidence from a controlled clinical trial

Lopes

Gonçalves

Machado

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Psychotherapy Research

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“…In this case, interventions must be focused on either enhancing quality of support, perhaps from caregivers, or assisting the patient in ascribing meaning to the care they receive. Reflective listening techniques, cognitive reframing, or narrative therapy may help a patient to explore themes of loss and devaluation (Kropf and Tandy, 1998). In general, facilitation of interpersonal functioning, or enhancement of the perceived quality of support, may be accomplished using evidence-based treatments, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, which are cost-effective and able to be broadly disseminated (Buenaver et al, 2006).…”

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Functional impairment, illness burden, and depressive symptoms in older adults: does type of social relationship matter?

Hatfield

Hirsch

Lyness

2012

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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Objective The nature of interpersonal relationships, whether supportive or critical, may affect the association between health status and mental health outcomes. We examined the potential moderating effects of social support, as a buffer, and family criticism, as an exacerbating factor, on the association between illness burden, functional impairment and depressive symptoms. Methods Our sample of 735 older adults, aged 65 and older, was recruited from internal and family medicine primary care offices. Trained interviewers administered the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Duke Social Support Inventory, and Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale. Physician-rated assessments of health, including the Karnofsky Performance Status Scale and Cumulative Illness Rating Scale were also completed. Results Linear multivariable hierarchical regression results indicate that social interaction was a significant buffer, weakening the association between illness burden and depressive symptoms, whereas perceived social support buffered the relationship between functional impairment and depressive symptoms. Family criticism and instrumental social support were not significant moderators. Conclusions Type of medical dysfunction, whether illness or impairment, may require different therapeutic and supportive approaches. Enhancement of perceived social support, for those who are impaired, and encouragement of social interactions, for those who are ill, may be important intervention targets for treatment of depressive symptoms in older adult primary care patients.

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“…The RCP (2018) makes a compelling argument for a specially tailored mental health provision for older people. However, older people's needs are dependent on a wide range of factors (Kropf & Tandy, 2008) and, as Cooper (2008) argues, the necessity of exploring personal preference is integral to the provision. An exploration of how, if at all, older people feel their voice is listened to would contribute to forwarding the discussion on how this population can best be served.…”

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“…Participants described entering therapy to tell their story. "Telling your story" is associated with the Narrative Approach, developed by White & Epston (1990) and further developed for older people by Kropf and Tandy (2008). The efficacy of narrative therapy lies in seeking to explore the validity and origins of sometimes damaging self-concepts.…”

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“…These two statements evidence a misalignment between what older people want and what the medical profession (and, by implication, society) appears to think that they want. Kropf and Tandy (2008) found the way older people thought about themselves often included themes of loss and devaluation derived from socially constructed images of older adults as dependent and unproductive. This suggests that older people are disadvantaged not only by limited and unequal allocation of resources, but also by deep-rooted and internalised bias that instils a sense of personal unworthiness.…”

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The older client’s experience of counselling and psychotherapy

Davies

2020

Couns and Psychother Res

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Fundamental to this study was establishing at what age one is considered "old" and care was taken to avoid the sort of unhelpful stereotyping described by other researchers (Gergen & Gergen, 2017;Orbach, 2003;Scrutton, 1989). Older people are a diverse population with individual needs, or as one participant put it: "it's very strange, when you're in old age yourself, you don't think of it as being old age, it's just your life". However, while recognising definitions of old age are complex, in line with the United Nations (2019), this study has specified that participants should be 65 and over. | BACKG ROU N DRecent research confirms that older people are less likely to be offered therapy and more likely to be offered medication (Frost,

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Narrative Therapy with Older Clients

Cited by 58 publications

References 17 publications

Narrative Therapy vs. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for moderate depression: Empirical evidence from a controlled clinical trial

Narrative Therapy vs. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for moderate depression: Empirical evidence from a controlled clinical trial

Functional impairment, illness burden, and depressive symptoms in older adults: does type of social relationship matter?

The older client’s experience of counselling and psychotherapy

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