Additional Resources: Watch Madigan’s full session #5
Full session demonstration: Consulting your consultants and reauthoring: live session #5
Reading: Critical multiculturalism, whiteness, and social Work (Nylund, 2006)
David Nylund's paper writes that most cultural diversity classes in social work are taught from a liberal or conservative multicultural perspective that precludes a power analysis and a critical discussion of whiteness.
Reading: Destabilizing chronic identities of depression and retirement (Madigan, 1999) – Sample
PreviewThe paper brings together the relational politic of narrative theory and practice considerations when working with persons living on psychiatric wards who have been professionally named and captured within destabilizing chronic identities. The paper features an example of therapeutic letter writing campaigns.
Video: Introducing a narrative interview method (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen Madigan highlights a few primary narrative therapy ideas including how narrative therapy theory hinges on the idea that conventional ideas of the self as a separate, singular, coherent and readable entity is a normative psychological construct - but it is not an established scientific truth.
Live Session: Reauthoring stories of masculinity and fear (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen explores the mans experiences with certain dominant expectations and specifications of masculinity and this leads to a broadening of definitions on alternative ways of being a man.
Video: Power/knowledge & ethical practices (Madigan & White, 1991)
During this 1991 video interview Michael White address topics including an opposite view to family therapy on the issue of power, power relations and practices of power.
Video: Relationship & power relations when working with trauma and abuse (Bird and Wade, 2007)
Johnella discusses the ways we use language - in particular, the relational use of language allows her to work with the intricacies of living within power relations.
Video: The birth of narrative therapy (Epston, Madigan and Sanders, 2011)
Colin Sanders interviews David Epston and Stephen Madigan in front of his Graduate School students on the beginning histories of narrative therapy. In this section of the interview David recalls his first meeting with Michael White in 1982.
Reading: VSNT brief glossary of terms (Madigan, 2016)
For your reading enjoyment - VSNT and Stephen Madigan outline many of the key terms of narrative therapy theory and practice and - offer a brief description of each
Reading: Destabilizing chronic identities of depression and retirement (Madigan, 1999)
This VSNT paper by Stephen Madigan looks at the relationship between the relational ideas of narrative theory and practices when engaging with persons living on psychiatric wards who professionals have named with destabilizing chronic identities.
