Narrative Therapy & Social –Emotional Development of Young Children Dr P.N.Reebye Clinical Professor University of British Columbia Ms.A.Wolverton,Infant Development consultant
Dec 23, 2015
Narrative Therapy & Social –Emotional Development of Young Children
Dr P.N.Reebye
Clinical Professor
University of British Columbia
Ms.A.Wolverton,Infant Development consultant
Preworkhop Questionnaire
Discuss two random
Responses.
Learning Objectives
1. Learners will be able to appreciate the importance of narratives in therapy
2. Analyze template narratives
3. Use narratives as a source of evaluation
4. Understand the effectiveness of use of narratives in special populations
Key Words
1. Narratives
2. Interactions
3. Social emotional development
4. Dyadic and Family contexts
5. Co-Construction tasks
Narratives DefinitionsSocio-emotional Development Connecting early narratives with
emotional experiencesMultiple perspectives on narratives
Narratives: 2 premises (Emde)
1. Shared forms of understanding experiences
2. Essential for affective well-being and personal growth
3. Therapeutic tool that uses humane approach that is not restrictive( My addition)
Developmental Impact on narratives :Infancy Can grasp order of events
Can manage turn taking with caregiver
Use intersubjectivity to establish narrative attunement
Implicit joint reference with one word sentences
2nd year: Increased symbolic activity Knows how reference works Multiword sentences to convey meaning Can organize experience into fundamental
categories: agent( Johnny),action ( play),instrument (ball)
Understands small units combined produce larger meaning
Understands distinctive narrative voices
3-5 Years:Development of semantic ( mad, happy,
tired)and syntactic(tenses,temporal markers , link events as “ because”, “so”) systems
Sophisticate affective narrative frames
Preschooler’s narratives : 3 levels
3 levels
Representations
Plot
Discourse
Looking for emotional content in narrativesNarrative styleEmotional regulation Emotional themesView of self and otherEmotional Resolution
Affective narrative framesSituation narrativesPersonal experienceFeasible human narrativesDramatic narrativesEmotion state narratives Idealized narratives Metaphoric narratives
Attachment perspective Parental attachment and narratives Parental authority and narrativesLearning from parents::Parent as a
Mentor: Child as an apprentice Gender differences in narrative themesAttachment themes in children
Special Populations Maltreated children Mood disorders Separation anxietySocial anxiety
Mother Child co-construction tasks Maternal influence on child’s narrativesFirst scaffolding then a “narrative
frame”.High elaborative and Low information
mothers
Story StemsLost KeysSeparation Reunion Story Time with mom
Discussion on video clipsVideo Clip 1 ,2,3, Comment on Co-Construction tasks
Video Clip 4: comment on emotional content of the narrative.
Video Clip 5: Family narrative
Clinical Importance of Narratives Exploring of child’s psychodynamic processes
Can uncover information such as abuse, family chaos and confirm diagnosis
Helping mother-child dyads to co-regulate affect
Recognize limitations of the approach
References : Favez ,N.(2006) From Family Play to Family Narratives The Signal
Newsletter of the World Association for Infant Mental Health July –December 2005
Oppenheim ,D (1997).The attachment doll play interview for preschoolers .International journal of Behavioural Development,20,681-697
Warren,S.L., Emde,R.N.,& Sroufe,L.A.(2000).Internal Representations: Predicting anxiety from children's play narratives.Journal of the American academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,39(1),100-107
Warren,S.L.,Oppenheim,D., & Emde ,R.N.(1996).Can Emotions and themes in children’s play predict behavior problems? American academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,34(10),1331-1337.
Emde RN., Wolf D P., Oppenheim D (2003) Revealing the Inner worlds of Young Children.Oxford University Press