叙事治疗理论及其社会工作实践

The Theory of Narrative Therapy and the Related Social Work Practice

叙事治疗已成为当下比较流行的社会工作实践新范式,其主要理论基础是后现代主义的社会建构主义。社会建构主义认为人们的周围存在着多重的现实,视乎人们以怎样的方式进行建构。叙事疗法则在这种理论的指导下,使人们解构他们生活现实和关系的意义,并指出现实和内化的自我故事之间的差异,从而帮助人们解决问题。本文首先回顾了叙事治疗的理论渊源,总结叙事治疗理论的主要观点,并介绍了其在青少年社会工作和家庭社会工作中的运用,在此基础上提出相应评析。

As one of the new paradigm of contemporary social work theories, narrative therapy has become more popular in the social work practice, and social constructivism is seem as the main theoretical basis. It is claimed by Social constructivism that there are multiple realities around everyone; however, the way in what people think about them is the most important. Under the guidance of this theory, people are asked to deconstruct the reality of their lives and the meaning of relationships, and point out the differences between the reality and internal self-story, so that we can help people to solve the problems. In this paper, the origins of the theory of narrative therapy are reviewed firstly. We also summarize the main views of narrative therapy theory, and describe their social work practice among youth and family social work, then we will make the conclusion.