Narrative Therapy and Older People

Challenging Stigma, Supporting Connection and Building Hope
Practical advice and proven strategies for using narrative therapy with older people. From Tree of Life facilitation to ways of approaching loss and trauma, this person-centred approach helps service users take ownership of their own stories and improve their mental health.

Healthcare for older people tends to focus on physical limitations and cognitive decline, and the person's own perspective and strengths are often overlooked. Narrative therapy centres a person as the expert in their own story, and is particularly effective when combined with an older person's wealth of life experience. It highlights the way their views have been shaped by their cultural and personal contexts, which allows better understanding and communication, and improves people's lives.

Written by experienced psychologists, group facilitators and service users, this guide explores how to use narrative therapy with older people, including those with dementia or age-related conditions. From Tree of Life facilitation to ways of approaching loss and trauma, each chapter offers advice and proven strategies for practice for individuals, staff teams, groups and communities. This book helps you to adopt a person-centred approach to narrative therapy that helps service users to lead the life they want to live.

Where ageism and stigma often overwhelm older people and those who work with them, narrative therapy brings the focus back onto the person themselves, in the context of their history, their family and their community - who are they, and what do they have to say?

Contributor: Rosslyn Offord (Edited by), Polly Kaiser (Edited by), Elizabeth Field (Edited by), Rebecca Scullion (Contributions by), Sara Banks (Contributions by), Peter Ord (Contributions by), Jane Grant (Contributions by), Daniel Blake (Contributions by), Karen Gibbs (Contributions by), Helen Carter (Contributions by), Liz Jennings (Contributions by), Gemma Barry (Contributions by), Diane Clare (Contributions by), Richard Cheston (Foreword by), Hugh Fox (Foreword by), Chris Norris (Contributions by)

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