Narrative approach techniques have been increasingly utilized in recent years in psychotherapy, personal development, and life and career design. The narrative approach highlights the fundamental "privilege" of humanity, namely reason and storytelling, as tools for composition, meaning-making, and fruitful change, providing support for active lifelong practice, in the sense articulated by Aristotle regarding action as a service to life.

In this context, the book gathers widely applied empowerment techniques and assessment tools of the narrative approach, as well as empirically validated interventions in narrative practice. Comprehensive knowledge of effective and practical methods for fostering reflection and self-awareness is an essential asset for engaging productively, on one hand, with unconscious intrapsychic forces, and on the other hand, with the opportunities and barriers of external reality.

The book is aimed at psychologists, mental health professionals, psychotherapists, and counselors working on personal and/or professional development and career issues, educators of adolescents and adults, as well as students with relevant academic and professional interests.

Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Narrative and the narrative approach
• Towards a transformation of career counseling theories
• Empowerment approaches in narrative
• Empowerment techniques and assessment tools of narrative
• Contemporary assessment tools of narrative
• Contemporary interventions of the narrative approach
• Conclusion