Narrative-Informed Conceptual Modalities - Research has shown a range of benefits may accrue for those receiving narrative practices based care. Narrative Practice methods are used in a wide variety of settings, including provider - patient interactions, consumer healthcare, social justice, primary and secondary education, and corporate employee, client care. Alternate narrative approaches, methods and practice types have evolved over the last half century, but each share in common the goals of improving individual, team and, or group capacity and function.
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Please note that a “practice type”:
-is based on an existing or evolved formal methodology
-includes an established and robust set of principles, practices and methods
-is supported by qualitative and/or quantitative studies that have been peer reviewed to confirm practice efficacy.
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Jon Kabat Zinn - group explorations and discussions designed to foster a progressive deepening of mindful awareness; mindfulness.
- Mindful Practice in Medicine, Ron Epstein - conducts experiential workshops to help physicians and other health professionals thrive. Programs are designed to help reduce burnout, restore joy and well-being, build community, and promote excellence in healthcare.
- Narrative Art Therapy, uses the creative process of making art that tells a story used to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well-being of the client.
- Narrative-Based Medicine, Trish Greenhalgh, Brian Hurwitz - working in combination with individual cultural perspectives, and evidence based clinical research, the practice of creating mutually woven stories that better inform understanding and care decisions.
- Narrative Exposure Therapy, developed by Maggie Schauer, Frank Neuner, and Thomas Elbert. This treatment helps individuals establish a coherent life narrative in which to contextualize traumatic experiences. It is known for its use in group treatment with refugees.
- Narrative Medicine, Rita Charon - uses close reading and close listening skills developed through analyzing literature and other creative texts. A practice method of attention, representation and affiliation promotes “narrative competence,” which is used to improve and deepen intrapersonal and interpersonal understanding and communication. May be used in both clinical and alternate use settings for collaborative, team and individual personal and project skills improvement, as well as to help improve symptoms caused by burnout.
- Narrative Primary Care, John Launer - provides a theoretical framework and practical skills for dealing with individual reflection, family consultation, team development and facilitation. Conversations Inviting Change (CIC) "is based on narrative studies, communication theory and systems thinking." https://www.conversationsinvitingchange.com/ and provides a comprehensive approach to a primary health care, sports coaching and throughout a range of industries.
- Narrative Therapy Psychological Counseling Method Modalities, Michael White founder, along with David Epston - seeks collaborative positioning of patient with the therapist; tracing the history of the problem, exploring the effects of the problem, situating the problem in context, externalizing, deconstructing, and enabling the patient to reauthor more positive perspectives conducive to generating improved outcomes.
- Patient-Centered Care, Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, Thomas Freeman, Ian McWhinney, W. Wayne Weston Active - care collaboration, shared decision making, family involvement, timely implementations. Shared Decision Making - patient centered care, encourages the clinician(s) and patient collaboratively to work together to make evidenced based, informed health decisions.
- Relationship-Centered Care, RM Frankel, Penny Williamson, Andy Suckman – founded on 4 principles: Personhood of participant, importance of affect and emotion, all relationships occur in the context of reciprocal influence, and that the formation of relationships are morally valuable.
