A Contemporary Approach in Nursing: Narrative Therapy

Year 2025, Volume: 7 Issue: 3, 88 - 95, 29.12.2025

Neşe Bakan , Sultan Ayaz Alkaya

https://doi.org/10.59124/guhes.1726707

Abstract

Narrative therapy is a client-centered therapeutic approach that aims to reshape dominant, problem-laden life stories and construct new narratives to achieve desirable outcomes. It has both preventive and therapeutic effects in individual and group counseling sessions and psychotherapeutic interventions with children, adolescents, adults, women, and the elderly. Given its unbiased and respectful stance in both social and individual contexts, as well as its healing potential, narrative therapy is proposed to be applicable across all levels of nursing practice and in every setting where a nurse-client relationship exists, targeting diverse populations. Studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of narrative therapy when implemented by nursing professionals, establishing its applicability in supporting mental health. The purpose of this review article is to evaluate the use of narrative therapy, which is recognized as a contemporary approach in nursing, in light of scientific evidence, and to introduce it to the field of nursing.

Keywords

narrative therapy , nurse , psychiatric nursing

Ethical Statement

There is no need to obtain ethics committee permission for this study due to in review format reason. However, the study was conducted in accordance with ethical principles.

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