Narrative Therapy And Anxiety

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Based on Shelly’s history, narrative therapy might work for her, because her problem is the problem. Basically, she suffers from anxiety, which is affecting her life in many ways. Her personal life is suffering from her anxiety, because she is not able to feel close to anyone or the sense of safety. The concept of narrative therapy is to focus on the person’s problem rather than the person. The treatment target is to decrease her anxiety. There are techniques that are being implemented to help her, such as writing down incidents, which make her feel unsafe or worrisome, in her journal. The reason why this therapy can help her, is because the concept that the therapy has, which is that the “problem is something that a person has and not something

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