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describes the narrative therapy model and whether or not it would work well with indigenous peoples. The Narrative Therapy Model In traditional therapeutic settings, the therapist is viewed as the
"expert" in the field who is charged with the responsibility of "fixing" whatever problem the client presents (Walsh, 1998). This view of therapy presupposes that there is always information
available to help the therapist help the client, and that the therapist can apply that information to any situation with good results (Walsh, 1998). The narrative therapy model does
away with that "therapist as expert" thinking and makes the client an equal participant in the process of healing. Post-Modern/Post-Structural Perspective We can trace the development of postmodern concepts most
easily in the field of family therapy, where "[E]arly theories of family therapy ... were based on the mechanistic metaphors of cybernetics, and tended to place the power to create
change squarely in the hands of therapists" (Lee, 2004, p. 221). In this scenario, it didnt matter if "families understood why the sometimes arcane interventions seemed to work" because
the therapist "was paid to make change happen, and did so in what for that time [1960s and 1970s] were strikingly unconventional ways" (Lee, 2004, p. 221). But
with postmodern thought came a new way of looking at therapy. Before we go further, lets define "postmodern," a term that is extremely vague. In this context, postmodern
thought represents "a cultural shift away from fixed metanarratives, privileged discourses, and universal truths; away from objective reality; away from language as representational; and away from the scientific criterion of
knowledge as objective and fixed" (Lee, 2004, p. 221). What did it shift to? The "attitudinal stance that is congruent with a postmodern, narrative, and social constructionist
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