NURS 6650 Week 3: Experiential and Narrative Family Therapy

Order Instructions: Attached

Respond to Kelly’s post by providing feedback based on a narrative family therapeutic perspective. Support your feedback with evidence-based literature and/or your own experiences with clients.All references need to be less than 5 years old.

Kelly’s post is a mother and her two sons are in treatment family therapy. They live in pretty poor conditions in a trailer park. The two sons age 32 and 27 the 32 year old is sober for 30 days and the 27 year old is active heroin user. The father died from an overdose in the home. The approach has been used as strategic but the youngest son stopped coming to group because of his using drugs. The mother is co dependent and lets the sons have the bedrooms and she sleeps on the couch the older son is resentful towards the youngest son for still using but does not want to abandon his mom or brother. So the therapist is wondering where to go from here . NURS 6650 Week 3: Experiential and Narrative Family Therapy

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

American Nurses Association. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Standard 5B “Health Teaching and Health Promotion” (pages 55-56)

Nichols, M. (2014). The essentials of family therapy (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Chapter 8, “Experiential Family Therapy” (pp. 129–147)

Chapter 13, “Narrative Therapy” (pp. 243–258)

Wheeler, K. (Ed.). (2014). Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse: A how-to guide for evidence-based practice. New York, NY: Springer. NURS 6650 Week 3: Experiential and Narrative Family Therapy

“Genograms” pp. 137-142

Cohn, A. S. (2014). Romeo and Julius: A narrative therapy intervention for sexual-minority couples. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 25(1), 73–77. doi:10.1080/08975353.2014.881696

Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.

Escudero, V., Boogmans, E., Loots, G., & Friedlander, M. L. (2012). Alliance rupture and repair in conjoint family therapy: An exploratory study. Psychotherapy, 49(1), 26–37. doi:10.1037/a0026747

Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.

Freedman, J. (2014). Witnessing and positioning: Structuring narrative therapy with families and couples. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 35(1), 20–30. doi:10.1002/anzf.1043

Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.

Phipps, W. D., & Vorster, C. (2011). Narrative therapy: A return to the intrapsychic perspective. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 22(2), 128–147. doi:10.1080/08975353.2011.578036

Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.

Saltzman, W. R., Pynoos, R. S., Lester, P., Layne, C. M., & Beardslee, W. R. (2013). Enhancing family resilience through family narrative co-construction. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 16(3), 294–310.  NURS 6650 Week 3: Experiential and Narrative Family Therapydoi:10.1007/s10567-013-0142-2

Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.

Required Media

Governors State University (Producer). (2009). Emotionally focused couples therapy [Video file]. Chicago, IL: Author.

Note: You will access this media from the Walden Library databases. The approximate length of this media piece is 115 minutes.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2013b). Hernandez family genogram [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes.

Accessible player

Psychotherapy.net (Producer). (1998). Narrative family therapy [Video file]. San Francisco, CA: Author.

Note: You will access this media from the Walden Library databases. The approximate length of this media piece is 111 minutes.

Optional Resources

Psychotherapy.net (Producer). (2007). Existential psychotherapy [Video file]. San Francisco, CA: Author.

NURS 6650 Week 3: Experiential and Narrative Family Therapy

Order Instructions: ATTACHED Respond to Jennifer’s post by providing feedback based on a narrative family therapeutic perspective. Support your feedback with evidence-based literature and/or your own experiences with clients. Jennifers post is a family of 3 that is african american and divorced for 2 years. They have a 17 yr old daughter who has been in treatment for 3 months for PTSD from divorce she lives 4 days with her dad and 3 days with her mom. Her therapy is not progressing so the therapist thought to try family therapy it seems the dad has a drinking problem where he drank so much that he fell and passed out while his daughter is with him. The mom has been speaking negatively about her ex husband when the daughter is with her. The therapist uses the strategic approach doing framing and paradoxing and setting rules . The mom felt that all the blame was being placed on her so the therapist needs thoughts on where to go from here to continue with strategic or try something else. Learning Resources Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus. Required Readings American Nurses Association. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author. Standard 5B “Health Teaching and Health Promotion” (pages 55-56) Nichols, M. (2014). The essentials of family therapy (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson. Chapter 8, “Experiential Family Therapy” (pp. 129–147) Chapter 13, “Narrative Therapy” (pp. 243–258) Wheeler, K. (Ed.). (2014). Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse: A how-to guide for evidence-based practice. New York, NY: Springer. “Genograms” pp. 137-142 Cohn, A. S. (2014). Romeo and Julius: A narrative therapy intervention for sexual-minority couples. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 25(1), 73–77. doi:10.1080/08975353.2014.881696 Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases. Escudero, V., Boogmans, E., Loots, G., & Friedlander, M. L. (2012). Alliance rupture and repair in conjoint family therapy: An exploratory study. Psychotherapy, 49(1), 26–37. doi:10.1037/a0026747 Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases. Freedman, J. (2014). Witnessing and positioning: Structuring narrative therapy with families and couples. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 35(1), 20–30. doi:10.1002/anzf.1043 Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases. Phipps, W. D., & Vorster, C. (2011). Narrative therapy: A return to the intrapsychic perspective. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 22(2), 128–147. doi:10.1080/08975353.2011.578036 Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases. Saltzman, W. R., Pynoos, R. S., Lester, P., Layne, C. M., & Beardslee, W. R. (2013). Enhancing family resilience through family narrative co-construction. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 16(3), 294–310. doi:10.1007/s10567-013-0142-2 Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases. Required Media Governors State University (Producer). (2009). Emotionally focused couples therapy [Video file]. Chicago, IL: Author. Note: You will access this media from the Walden Library databases. The approximate length of this media piece is 115 minutes. Laureate Education (Producer). (2013b). Hernandez family genogram [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author. Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes. Accessible player Psychotherapy.net (Producer). (1998). Narrative family therapy [Video file]. San Francisco, CA: Author. Note: You will access this media from the Walden Library databases. The approximate length of this media piece is 111 minutes. Optional Resources Psychotherapy.net (Producer). (2007). Existential psychotherapy [Video file]. San Francisco, CA: Author.