Narrative Therapy in CAMHS: Creating Multistoried Treatments

Abstract

This article describes how clinicians are working on establishing structures that will enable research on and producing evidence for narrative family therapy with families struggling with psychiatric illnesses. The aim is to suggest ways for clinicians working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to implement collaborative therapies in a psychiatric setting that favors evidence-based practices. Pragmatism and the narrative theory of multistoried practices offer the means to both speak and theorize about such dilemmas and suggest practices that enable clinicians to grapple with these challenges. We hope that this article will be part of the growing inspiration for others to practice “narrative psychiatry." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)