Integrating Narrative and Action Processes in Group Counseling Practice: A Multimodal Approach for Helping Clients

Abstract

The aim of this article is to introduce an integrated approach for helping clients. The approach combines and builds on two group-based interventions: guided autobiography and therapeutic enactment. Descriptions of the two interventions individually and a transtheoretical model for change are provided. How change occurs through the proposed approach is described and then illustrated through the presentation of a case study. Characteristics for whom the approach applies, limitations, implications, and research are also discussed.

Keywords:

• group counseling
• guided autobiography
• integrated approach
• therapeutic enactment

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Notes on contributors

Marvin J. Westwood

Marvin J. Westwood, Ph.D., is a professor in the Counseling Psychology Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Joan F. Ewasiw

Joan F. Ewasiw is a Ph.D. student in the Educational Psychology Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton.