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Michael White (29 December 1948 – 4 April 2008) [1] was an Australian social worker and family therapist. He is known as the founder of narrative therapy , and for his significant contribution to psychotherapy and family therapy , which have been a source of techniques adopted by other approaches.
Michael White (pictured) helped develop narrative therapy. Narrative therapy (or narrative practice) [1] is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help patients identify their values and the skills associated with them. It provides the patient with knowledge of their ability to embody these values so they can effectively confront current and ...
The term was first used by Australian writer, therapeutic theorist, and social worker Michael White in his lectures [1] in 1991. Karl Tomm, a noted Canadian social worker, traces the use of the term to earlier lectures by Michael White in his foreword to Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends [2] (1990).
David Epston (born 30 August 1944) is a New Zealand social worker and therapist, formerly co-director of the Family Therapy Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, formerly visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy University, formerly an honorary clinical lecturer in the Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne, and formerly an affiliate faculty member in the Ph.D program in Couple and ...
Michael White (criminologist) (born 1951), professor of criminology at Arizona State University Michael White (psychotherapist) (1948–2008), inventor of narrative therapy Michael J. D. White (1910–1983), British zoologist
Bateson was quoted in Michael White's early writings inspired by cybernetic ideas, but White still quoted him when his interests turned to narrative: there is a discussion of Bateson's ideas about understanding and interpretation of reality, 'news of a difference', the importance of the temporal dimension, and differentiation in both White and ...
Explores the use of CFT's conceptual tools in family narratives. "Stories" is the seventh conceptual tool of CFT—a family's evolving narrative and therapy itself as "the garden of forking paths", a metaphor from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, meaning a series of choices. This year-long story of the course of family's therapy demonstrates ...
The Narrative Paradigm is a theory that suggests that human beings are natural storytellers and that a good story is more convincing than a good argument. Walter Fisher developed this theory as a solution making cohesive arguments. Fisher conceptualized the paradigm as a way to combat issues in the public sphere. [4]