by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
Feedback Informed Treatment: Evidence-Based Practice Meets Social Construction This article explores the challenges presented by the mandate for evidence-based practice for family therapists who identify with the philosophical stance of social construction. The...
by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
Friendly Ghosts: Re-Membering Conversations with Children This chapter illustrates the application of the narrative therapy practice of re-membering conversations with a young girl and her mother after the death of a grandparent.
by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
Homonormativity & Queer Youth Resistance This chapter explores how the institutionalization of a gay identity reproduces some of the same oppressive and limiting specifications from which the gay liberation movement has sought freedom. The concept of...
by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
The Gender Binary: Theory & Lived Experience The acronym ‘GLBTQ’ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) is widely used to describe those individuals who inhabit spaces outside of the heteronormative standard. Yet the term ‘transgender’ is often not well...
by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
Nimble and Courageous Acts: How Michael Became the Boss of Himself Collaboration, re-storying, privileging insider knowledge, deconstruction, and not-knowing are among the foundational practices of narrative therapy. In this paper, a narrative therapist collaborates...
by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
Pedagogy and Praxis: Postmodern Spirit in the Classroom This article identifies some of the benefits of using a postmodern approach in a social work practice or family therapy classroom. A postmodern pedagogical stance has particular significance for faculty who teach...
by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
Psychotherapy Research, the Recovery Movement and Practice-Based Evidence in Psychiatric Rehabilitation This article reviews the literature on psychotherapy outcome research and discusses the relationship between those findings and the tenets of the consumer-driven...
by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
Resisting Normativity: Queer Musings on Politics, Identity, and the Performance of Therapy What are some of the hazards of the modern gay rights movement? The authors propose that in attempting to secure ‘equal’ rights in various aspects of public and private life –...
by Melissa Jamrock | Aug 22, 2015
We Don’t Need No Education: Parents are Doing it For Themselves Parent education has existed in some form in this country since the early nineteenth century and is considered a typical task of family therapy. Based on modernist notions of a universal construction of...
