Here are just some terms associated with narrative medicine, narrative ethics, and narrative practice research and analysis This is not exhaustive, and does not include all emerging practice areas. We’ll be posting regular updates. 

These terms represent various aspects of the intersection between narrative and healthcare, and client care. Exploring how stories and storytelling can inform ethical decision-making, improve patient care, employee and client care and enhance understanding.

• Narrative Medicine: An approach to medical practice that focuses on the stories of patients and healthcare providers to improve clinical care, foster empathy, and promote healing.
• Narrative Ethics: A branch of bioethics that explores the ethical dimensions of healthcare through the lens of storytelling and narrative understanding.
• Narrative Practice Research: Research methodologies that use narratives and storytelling as primary data sources to investigate healthcare practices, patient experiences, and ethical issues.
• Narrative Analysis: The process of examining stories and narratives to uncover patterns, themes, and meanings, often used in qualitative research methods.
• Narrative Inquiry: A research approach that emphasizes the collection and analysis of stories and personal narratives to understand social phenomena, including healthcare practices and ethical dilemmas.
• Narrative Identity: The construction of self and identity through storytelling, including how individuals understand and interpret their own experiences within a narrative framework.
• Narrative Competence: The ability of healthcare providers to listen to, understand, and respond to the narratives of patients and colleagues in a meaningful and empathetic way.
• Reflective Practice: A method of self-examination and critical reflection used by healthcare professionals to explore their own values, biases, and experiences in relation to patient care and ethical decision-making.
• Narrative Ethics Consultation: A process in which experts in narrative ethics provide guidance and support to healthcare teams facing complex ethical dilemmas through the analysis of stories and narratives.
• Narrative Medicine Program: Educational initiatives, often within medical schools or healthcare institutions, that integrate narrative approaches into medical education, clinical practice, and research.
• Patient Narratives: Personal stories and accounts shared by patients about their experiences with illness, healthcare, and the healthcare system, which can provide valuable insights for improving care and understanding patient perspectives.
• Healthcare Narratives: Stories told by healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, and other professionals, about their experiences, challenges, and ethical dilemmas encountered in clinical practice.
• Narrative Humility: An idea developed by Sayantani DasGupta, narrative humility makes spaces for ambiguity and self-contradiction in the receiving and telling of story.
• Narrative Reciprocity: A term popularized by Rita Charon, narrative reciprocity refers to a realization where the power hierarchy is diminished, and even undermined. Narrative is viewed as the gift, and there exists a feeling of reciprocal generosity between giver and receiver.