1. Narrative Therapy & Social –Emotional Development of Young Children Dr P.N.Reebye Clinical Professor University of British Columbia Ms.A.Wolverton,Infant Development consultant

2. Preworkhop Questionnaire Discuss two random Responses.

3. Learning Objectives 1. Learners will be able to appreciate the importance of narratives in therapy 2. Analyze template narratives 3. Use narratives as a source of evaluation 4. Understand the effectiveness of use of narratives in special populations

4. Key Words 1. Narratives 2. Interactions 3. Social emotional development 4. Dyadic and Family contexts 5. Co-Construction tasks

5. Narratives  Definitions  Socio-emotional Development  Connecting early narratives with emotional experiences  Multiple perspectives on narratives

6. Narratives: 2 premises (Emde) 1. Shared forms of understanding experiences 2. Essential for affective well-being and personal growth 3. Therapeutic tool that uses humane approach that is not restrictive( My addition)

7. Developmental Impact on narratives :Infancy  Can grasp order of events  Can manage turn taking with caregiver  Use intersubjectivity to establish narrative attunement  Implicit joint reference with one word sentences

8. 2 nd year:  Increased symbolic activity  Knows how reference works  Multiword sentences to convey meaning  Can organize experience into fundamental categories: agent( Johnny),action ( play),instrument (ball)  Understands small units combined produce larger meaning  Understands distinctive narrative voices

9. 3-5 Years:  Development of semantic ( mad, happy, tired)and syntactic(tenses,temporal markers, link events as “ because”, “so”) systems  Sophisticate affective narrative frames

10. Preschooler’s narratives : 3 levels 3 levels Representations Plot Discourse

11. Looking for emotional content in narratives  Narrative style  Emotional regulation  Emotional themes  View of self and other  Emotional Resolution

12. Affective narrative frames  Situation narratives  Personal experience  Feasible human narratives  Dramatic narratives  Emotion state narratives  Idealized narratives  Metaphoric narratives

13. Attachment perspective  Parental attachment and narratives  Parental authority and narratives  Learning from parents::Parent as a Mentor: Child as an apprentice  Gender differences in narrative themes  Attachment themes in children

14. Special Populations  Maltreated children  Mood disorders  Separation anxiety  Social anxiety

15. Mother Child co-construction tasks  Maternal influence on child’s narratives  First scaffolding then a “narrative frame”.  High elaborative and Low information mothers

16. Story Stems  Lost Keys  Separation  Reunion  Story Time with mom

17. Discussion on video clips  Video Clip 1,2,3,  Comment on Co-Construction tasks  Video Clip 4: comment on emotional content of the narrative.  Video Clip 5: Family narrative

18. Clinical Importance of Narratives  Exploring of child’s psychodynamic processes  Can uncover information such as abuse, family chaos and confirm diagnosis  Helping mother-child dyads to co-regulate affect  Recognize limitations of the approach

19. References :  Favez,N.(2006) From Family Play to Family Narratives The Signal Newsletter of the World Association for Infant Mental Health July – December 2005  Oppenheim,D (1997).The attachment doll play interview for preschoolers.International journal of Behavioural Development,20,681- 697  Warren,S.L., Emde,R.N.,& Sroufe,L.A.(2000).Internal Representations: Predicting anxiety from children's play narratives.Journal of the American academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,39(1),100-107  Warren,S.L.,Oppenheim,D., & Emde,R.N.(1996).Can Emotions and themes in children’s play predict behavior problems? American academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,34(10),1331-1337.  Emde RN., Wolf D P., Oppenheim D (2003) Revealing the Inner worlds of Young Children.Oxford University Press