title: The nurse and the use of narrative: an approach to caring.
abstract: The use by the nurse of the principles of narrative therapy to help patients re-author their personal narrative, and change it from a problem-saturated story to one that is more preferred, is explored. Three main narrative techniques: deconstruction, externalization and re-authoring are described. Examples of these techniques are provided to help nurses at all levels of nursing practice assume the role of collaborator in the re-authoring process.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA. aloija@umdnj.edu
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Aloi
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004645:Empathy; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D033262:Narration; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D033302:Postmodernism; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011340:Problem Solving; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D012660:Semantics; D013561:Symbolism