Narrative Therapy (Theories of Psychotherapy) by Madigan Stephen

Author:Madigan, Stephen [Madigan, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781433808562
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2012-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

RELATIVE INFLUENCE QUESTIONS

From the outset of our narrative therapy history, the therapeutic interview involved relational externalizing, unique outcomes, unique accounts, unique possibilities, unique redescription,6 and unique circulation questions, as well as experience of experience, preference, and historical questions.

Everyday narrative therapy interviewing involves a process known as relative influence questioning, which comprises three sets of questions: (a) One set maps the influence of the problem on the person and losses experienced within this relationship, (b) another set encourages persons to map their own (and others’) influence in the life of the problem (White, 1988), and (c) the third set begins to map out the unique outcomes or the occasions in which the person experienced some influence in his or her life despite the discursive power of the problem.

Woven together, relative influence questions invite a re-telling of the client story in such a way as to evoke a discursive means of understanding and performing aspects of the client’s abilities and skills in the face of the problem (Nylund & Thomas, 1997). Below is the frame and structure of a narrative therapy interview that I learned in my apprenticeship and ongoing relationship with David Epston and Michael White (a relationship that continues in many parts of the world and is intentionally practiced at the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy).

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