new book
by Nina Tejs Jørring
This book provides professionals with guidance in helping people who are heavily burdened with psychiatric illnesses.
Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations is based on these visions:
- Combining narrative therapy and the bio-psycho-social model used in the health care sector to address psychiatric problems.
- Taking a family approach, not an individualistic approach.
- Creating a team culture consistent with narrative ethics.
- Honouring and using the knowledge and wisdom of people who seek help in psychiatry.
The book builds on 10 year’s clinic research
This book grew out of the work of the Family Therapy Team established in 2010 in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services of the Capital Region in Denmark. Our purpose was to develop a treatment based on narrative family therapy to help families struggling with complex psychiatric problems so severe that regular treatment, both in the hospital and in the community, had been inadequate. Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations is based on the knowledge we created during the unit’s first decade.
The aim is to help these patients, in collaboration with their families, to find ways to live a life as close as possible to their dreams.
20% DISCOUNT CODE* AVAILABLE: FLA22
*Enter code at check-out. Click on the button "order now" to go to shop.
new book
by Nina Tejs Jørring
This book provides professionals with guidance in helping people who are heavily burdened with psychiatric illnesses.
Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations is based on these visions:
- Combining narrative therapy and the bio-psycho-social model used in the health care sector to address psychiatric problems.
- Taking a family approach, not an individualistic approach.
- Creating a team culture consistent with narrative ethics.
- Honouring and using the knowledge and wisdom of people who seek help in psychiatry.
The book builds on 10 year’s clinic research
This book grew out of the work of the Family Therapy Team established in 2010 in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services of the Capital Region in Denmark. Our purpose was to develop a treatment based on narrative family therapy to help families struggling with complex psychiatric problems so severe that regular treatment, both in the hospital and in the community, had been inadequate. Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations is based on the knowledge we created during the unit’s first decade.
The aim is to help these patients, in collaboration with their families, to find ways to live a life as close as possible to their dreams.
20% DISCOUNT CODE* AVAILABLE: FLA22
*Enter code at check-out. Click on the button "order now" to go to shop.
The chapters are divided into ideas, values and techniques
The book describes family-oriented practices, narrative collaborative practices, narrative psychiatric practices, and narrative agency practices. It also talks about wonderfulness-interviewing, mattering practices, public note taking on paper charts, therapeutic letter writing, diagnoses as externalized problems, narrative medicine, and family community meetings. Each chapter includes case studies that illustrate the theory, ethics and practice, told by Nina Jorring in collaboration with the families and colleagues.
Stories from the author and from families
This book presents first-hand perspectives about being a patient, a family, a doctor, and a therapist. Therefore, the book includes not only stories told by the author, but also stories told by the families she meets. The book’s vision is to inspire you to be the best version of yourself professionally.
20%* DISCOUNT CODE AVAILABLE: FLA22
*Enter code at check-out. Click on the button "order now" to go to shop.
The chapters are divided into ideas, values and techniques
The book describes family-oriented practices, narrative collaborative practices, narrative psychiatric practices, and narrative agency practices. It also talks about wonderfulness-interviewing, mattering practices, public note taking on paper charts, therapeutic letter writing, diagnoses as externalized problems, narrative medicine, and family community meetings. Each chapter includes case studies that illustrate the theory, ethics and practice, told by Nina Jorring in collaboration with the families and colleagues.
Stories from the author and from families
This book presents first-hand perspectives about being a patient, a family, a doctor, and a therapist. Therefore, the book includes not only stories told by the author, but also stories told by the families she meets. The book’s vision is to inspire you to be the best version of yourself professionally.
20% DISCOUNT CODE* AVAILABLE: FLA22
*Enter code at check-out. Click on the button "order now" to go to shop.
reviews and recommendations
This book by Nina Tejs Jørring with June Alexander and David Epston is humbling in its humanity. It provides a vibrant insight into the practice of narrative therapy to work with our fellow human beings and their families in a compassionate, respectful way that can lead to very real changes for them when facing severe challenges from life. It brings together knowledge and skill from different fields including medicine, psychology, philosophy, the social sciences and synthesises these, illustrating much of the best of the art of treatment in mental health. Informed by science, it goes further, to the heart of establishing collaborative treatment, a journey with families that accompanies them while they establish their own creative solutions. It is generously threaded with stories to illustrate the approaches that the lead author and her team have developed from models originating with Michael White and David Epston.
– Brian Jacobs, Emeritus Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
This is not a book written from an expert vantage point although Nina has vast backgrounds in both psychiatry and narrative family therapy. Despite her immeasurable skills there is humility and a spirit of collaboration at the heart of her practice. Terms like co-create, co-write, co-assess and co-decide are found throughout the book affirming Nina’s interest in shared knowledge. Session transcripts abound, bringing the reader into the therapy room, illuminating various aspects of narrative practice. This book offers a wealth of resources for anyone looking to enhance their skills in family therapy.
– David Marsten, LCSW, co-author of Narrative Therapy in Wonderland
Director of Miracle Mile Community Practice mmcpla.org
Maybe you have heard about narrative therapy, but did not really know what it is? After reading this book, it is as if you have attended several sessions yourself already! Nina Jørring carefully takes you through the basic elements by referring numerous cases with access to the dialogue as if you were listening in on the session. She generously shares her own experiences, both those where she overcame a therapeutic barrier, and those, where some things could have been done differently. There is no doubt about her heartfelt engagement in each case to listen and try to understand, being curious, creative, and respectful – some of the main elements of narrative therapy. If you have any interest in human psychology and family dynamics you will read this book from page 1 to the end, before passing it on to you colleague.
– Anne A. E. Thorup, Professor, PhD, specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry.
The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study and VIA Family. Research Unit at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center and Research Unit at Mental Health Center Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark