School counselling as community work [Narrative community work in schools]
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Pizzini, Nigel
Gremillion, Helen
Gremillion, Helen
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2017-11-29
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Conference Contribution - Oral Presentation
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New Zealand
secondary schools
students
pupils
counselling
narratives of strengths
narrative counselling
insider brochures
secondary schools
students
pupils
counselling
narratives of strengths
narrative counselling
insider brochures
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Pizzini, N., & Gremillion, H. (2017, November). School counselling as community work [Narrative community work in schools]. Paper presented at Recent Research and Innovations in Practice: A mini-Conference for Counsellors, Auckland University, Tamaki Campus.
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This presentation explores narrative work in secondary schools as a vehicle for creating collective knowledge, and empowering young people to support one another. Narrative approaches de-privatise and deindividualise people’s experiences of difficulties, and reposition clients from “sufferer”’ of problems to “experts” on how to overcome them (White, 2007; White & Epston, 1990). Aspects of practice illustrated include “undercover” teams, which enlist a group of students to support culture change in a school (Winslade & Williams, 2012). A unique practice sitting at the intersection of narrative counselling and narrative community work will also be described, wherein helpful ideas from the counselling room about problems students experience are written into collaboratively-generated informational brochures that are made available to the school community as a whole. Via the facilitation of a school counsellor, students are thus able to share their insights and strategies (anonymously) in support of peers who may be experiencing similar problems.
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