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Client narratives: a theoretical perspective.

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The role of subjective client narratives in health care represents a clinical and therapeutic tool, useful in complementing objective, scientific data. Of particular interest to mental health practitioners is the role narratives play as a therapeutic ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003 Jan-Feb in Journal: Issues Ment Health Nurs (Language : eng)

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1. Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2003 Jan-Feb;24(1):81-9

Client narratives: a theoretical perspective.

Gale DD, Mitchell AM, Garand L, Wesner S

University of Missouri Applied Language Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

The role of subjective client narratives in health care represents a clinical and therapeutic tool, useful in complementing objective, scientific data. Of particular interest to mental health practitioners is the role narratives play as a therapeutic tool to guide clinical practice. This paper lays a foundation for understanding the importance of narrative in the psychotherapeutic process. It provides a brief overview of narrative theory and methods of structural analysis in order to provide a theoretical approach that can be utilized by nurses to address clients' needs.

PMID : 12735076 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Deborah Dysart	Gale	DD
Ann M	Mitchell	AM
Linda	Garand	L
Susan	Wesner	S

Affiliation: University of Missouri Applied Language Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

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