Exploring the use and relevance of narrative approaches to psycho-social interventions in the south African context : a mixed methods content analysis

Smit, Christelle

Title: Exploring the use and relevance of narrative approaches to psycho-social interventions in the south African context : a mixed methods content analysis
Creator: Smit, Christelle
Subject: Narrative therapy
Date Issued: 2016
Date: 2016
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MSoc
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/6432
Identifier: vital:29684
Description: This study aims to explore the use and relevance of Narrative approaches to psycho-social interventions in the South African context. The profession of psychology in South Africa has been in a state of discontentment since the country’s turn to democracy in 1994 which has been voiced from both those within the profession and those it aims to assist. The loudest call is for a psychology that is relevant to the South African context – culturally, socially, and politically. Narrative approaches to psychotherapy and psycho-social intervention are grounded in post-modern and social-constructionist thought and offer an alternative to mainstream psychological theory. Narrative practice aims to promote social justice and views therapy as a political act. It is also an approach that values local knowledges and sees all therapeutic engagements as cross-cultural encounters which are approached with curiosity and a not-knowing stance, rather than an interpretive, analytical lens. This study has investigated what the existing literature has produced regarding the use and relevance of Narrative approaches in South Africa context. The research process was implemented using a mixed methods research methodology whereby a sample of 58 journal articles (n=58) were analysed using both quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The common themes that emerged from the articles were ‘viewing people in context’, ‘listening to the telling of stories’, ‘theoretical constructs of a narrative approach’, and ‘social phenomena’.
Format: 120 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: University of Fort Hare
Publisher: Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Language: English
Rights: University of Fort Hare

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