Positive practices : solution-focused and narrative therapeutic techniques with children with sexually harmful behaviours

Myers, JS

Abstract

This article explores the use of solution-focused and Narrative Therapeutic approaches with a boy who had sexually harmful behaviours. The paper will highlight the practical challenges of working with someone who is 'problem-saturated' through institutionalisation and who is also subjected to powerful discourses claiming the 'truth' about him. The use of solution-focused and Narrative Therapeutic principles and approaches will be demonstrated in the work described, in a way that allows the reader to reflect on how these may differ from modernist understandings and responses to this behaviour.

Citation

Myers, J. (2006). Positive practices : solution-focused and narrative therapeutic techniques with children with sexually harmful behaviours. Practice, 18(3), 183-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503150600904094

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: Jan 14, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 14, 2009
• Journal: Practice
• Print ISSN: 0950-3153
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 183-193
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09503150600904094
• Keywords: Solution focused, narrative therapy, adolescent sex offenders
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503150600904094