Therapeutic Storytelling

Abstract

Therapeutic storytelling aims to find the psychological difficulties experienced by the individual through creative narratives, uses problem-solving skills, and offers alternative ways based on narrative therapy. In therapeutic storytelling, questions about the meaning attributed to the story, the hero and metaphors that can be asked to the client, and the circular question forms of systemic interventions related to others important to the person are similar. In both forms of these interventions, subjective reality is reconstructed, and so, therapeutic storytelling can be used eclectically with systemic interventions. In this chapter, a sample intervention template for systemic-based therapeutic storytelling has been offered. Moreover, an exemplary hypothetical case of the systemic-based storytelling intervention pattern is presented. As a result, instead of focusing directly on the client's own life story, using storytelling intervention in a less threatening environment for the client through other stories may activate the client to gain insight and different viewpoints.