The Art of Narrative Practice

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

170 hours per 12.5 credit point subject

To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted in MC-NTCW. This subject is not available for students admitted in any other courses.

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this course are articulated in the Course Overview, Objectives and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. Students who feel their disability may impact on meeting the requirements of this course are encouraged to discuss this matter with the Student Equity and Disability Support Team: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

In this subject, students acquire a working knowledge of the diversity of ways in which narrative practices are being engaged with children young people and adults; with individuals, groups, organisations and communities; and in a range of different cultural contexts across the globe. Students are required to analyse developments in the field in relation to their implications for own practice in their own local cultural context.

Students who complete this subject will be able to:

• Compare and contrast different ways in which narrative practices are engaged with children, young people and adults; with individuals, groups, organizations and communities.
• Articulate and distinguish how differing cultural, class, gendered, age contexts influence the shape of narrative practices
• Examine and question how the narrative practices engaged by practitioners in different contexts could be put into practice in their local context
• Propose adaptations that may be necessary in order for narrative approaches developed elsewhere to be relevant and resonant in their own context

1. Written reflections (4 x 2000 words)

• Timing of Assessment - Due fortnightly
• Assessment % - 80

2. One essay (1500 words)

• Timing of Assessment - Due mid semester
• Assessment % - 20

3. Client contact record (500 words)

• Timing of Assessment - Due end of semester
• Assessment % - Hurdle requirement

• Yuen, A. & White, C. (2007) (Eds.). Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice. Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• Epston, D. & Bowen, B. (2008). Down under and up over: Travels in narrative therapy. London: Karnac Books.
• Denborough, D. (2006) (Ed.). Trauma: Narrative responses to traumatic experience. Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.