Narrative Therapy: A Case Study

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In addition, (the cycle continues) just like his father was absent from his life, he was absent from his children’s life. Nonetheless, he did provide for them financially, when he was not in incarcerated, but failed to show them emotional and loving support. To this day, according to his caregiver, he still pushes his children away. As a child he was not shown love or emotional support, so it makes sense that he would not know how to reciprocate it back to his children. Had he continued to live with his grandmother where he was loved, disciplined the proper way, shown guidance and structure, his life probably would have turned out differently, but he was not giving the opportunity, which killed him on the inside. The client

I needed to help the client understand that he was not the problem; that he was a human being who makes mistakes but he himself was not the actually problem. The client needed to separate himself from his problem. During and after each session of narrative therapy, I observed that the client was still experiencing trauma (forcefully taken away form loving a and structured environment at his grandmothers house), isolation (distant from his family and being in and out of prison his whole life), addictions to alcohol and drugs, physical violence, loss of intimacy, loss of independence, despair, guilt and

The framework of CBT is to teach the client the skills he will need to be able to manage his reactions to anger regarding stressful and antagonizing situations. For CBT intervention I will recommend to the social worker that she should educate the client about anger management and skills he will need to acquire to be able to control his anger. The social worker should talk about using skills that will help the client to learn how to recognize his anger early, how to take a timeout when the client becomes angry, how to practice deep breathing, how to express his anger, and how to think of the consequences his anger will cause him. The social worker should also educate the client about anger warning signs. Warning signs might consist of the client recognizing when his mind goes blank, noticing heavy or fast breathing and to recognize when he is about to become argumentative and can’t stop thinking about the problem. Furthermore, the social worker should also make the client challenge his negative thoughts in those moments of anger by asking the client the following questions: 1. Is there substantial evidence for my thought? 2. If I look at the situation positively, how is it different? 3. Will this matter a year from now? Helping the client challenge his