Date of Award

Winter 3-17-2025

Document Type

Doctoral Research Paper

Degree Name

Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology

Organizational Unit

Graduate School of Professional Psychology

First Advisor

Erica Adkins

Second Advisor

Emily Markley

Third Advisor

Kelley Quirk

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords

Narrative therapy, Expressive art, Person-of-the-therapist, Social justice, Mental health practitioners in training

Abstract

This paper describes a proposed graduate-level academic elective course for mental health practitioners in training. The course content is organized across a total of 10 class sessions. Topic areas include introductions to the theory and techniques of narrative therapy, including expressive art approaches, the importance of social justice work through collective narrative practice and liberation psychology, the construction and analysis of stories of self and personal myths, and a focus on developing the person-of-the-therapist. Each class session will review that week's lecture content, assigned readings, small and large group discussion prompts, and in-class activities. The course prioritizes centering student experiences and needs, discussing and equalizing power dynamics, and imparting knowledge through creative and experiential means.

Copyright Date

3-7-2025

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Marissa Mueller

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

57 pgs

File Size

1 MB

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