Fort Worth, TX 76105
The blending of two postmodern models, solution focused therapy and narrative therapy, equals an extraordinary way of assisting clients to write a new chapter in their lives. Filled with case examples, dialogue, exercises and more, this workshop will show how the narrative therapy model can help therapists identify meaning, values and language that clients bring to therapy and use such in constructing a preferred future. Strategy suggestions for sexual and physical abuse, grief and loss, depression, eating disorders, trauma, anger, ADHD and school issues will be discussed. Through exception gathering, action oriented scaling questions and the miracle question, participants will experience the "blend" in a way that makes sense for themselves and their clients.
This program will feature a live session at 1 pm.
Linda Metcalf, PhD, LMFT is a Professor of Education and Director of the Graduate Counseling Program at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas where she also maintains a private practice. She is the author of ten books including Counseling Toward Solutions (1995, 2008, Wiley), Parenting Toward Solutions (1997, Prentice Hall), The Miracle Question, (2004, Crown House, UK) and Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice Oriented Approach (Springer, 2011).Since 1993, she has presented hundreds of seminars to trainees and educators in the United States, Australia, Japan, Newfoundland, Germany, Scotland, England, Norway, Amsterdam, Singapore, Canada and China.
She is Past President of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and Past President of the Texas Association for Marriage and Family therapy.
The blending of two postmodern models, solution focused therapy and narrative therapy, equals an extraordinary way of assisting clients to write a new chapter in their lives. Filled with case examples, dialogue, exercises and more, this workshop will show how the narrative therapy model can help therapists identify meaning, values and language that clients bring to therapy and use such in constructing a preferred future. Strategy suggestions for sexual and physical abuse, grief and loss, depression, eating disorders, trauma, anger, ADHD and school issues will be discussed. Through exception gathering, action oriented scaling questions and the miracle question, participants will experience the "blend" in a way that makes sense for themselves and their clients.
This program will feature a live session at 1 pm.
Linda Metcalf, PhD, LMFT is a Professor of Education and Director of the Graduate Counseling Program at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas where she also maintains a private practice. She is the author of ten books including Counseling Toward Solutions (1995, 2008, Wiley), Parenting Toward Solutions (1997, Prentice Hall), The Miracle Question, (2004, Crown House, UK) and Marriage and Family Therapy: A Practice Oriented Approach (Springer, 2011).Since 1993, she has presented hundreds of seminars to trainees and educators in the United States, Australia, Japan, Newfoundland, Germany, Scotland, England, Norway, Amsterdam, Singapore, Canada and China.
She is Past President of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and Past President of the Texas Association for Marriage and Family therapy.