Relating to illness in therapy
In this article, I explore the subject of supporting clients living with illness in the context of my counselling practice. I weave this approach to clinical practice, informed by response-based practice and the use of metaphor, together with my personal story of illness and recovery. I contextualis...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:0986871a624b4bab981e95b6131170d2 2023-05-15T17:12:20+02:00 Relating to illness in therapy Cathy Richardson/Kinewesquao 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.28963/1.2.3 https://doaj.org/article/0986871a624b4bab981e95b6131170d2 EN eng Everything is Connected Press http://murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/murmurations/article/view/34 https://doaj.org/toc/2516-0052 doi:10.28963/1.2.3 2516-0052 https://doaj.org/article/0986871a624b4bab981e95b6131170d2 Murmurations, Vol 1, Iss 2 (2018) counselling illness recovery meaning-making response-based practice metaphor Therapeutics. Psychotherapy RC475-489 article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.28963/1.2.3 2022-12-31T09:48:21Z In this article, I explore the subject of supporting clients living with illness in the context of my counselling practice. I weave this approach to clinical practice, informed by response-based practice and the use of metaphor, together with my personal story of illness and recovery. I contextualise my own history as a Metis woman and therapist into the life of my family, living in Canada's north. There, my maternal family lived in the midst of uranium extraction, a form of mining that resourced the Cold War and fueled the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Canada's implication in militarism had devastating effects on Indigenous community members. I explore the use of metaphor as a form of co-constructed meaning in therapy. I present my own symbolic journey through cancer and treatment as a sacred pilgrimage in Spain. The various key points in treatment parallel significant stops along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. As well, I explore how clients negotiate medical systems, impositions and negative social responses, as well as how they resource love, strength and care from family and friends. I apply a framework of response-based practice, seeking to understand the ways in which people preserve dignity and try to maximize safety and well-being. This includes the ways in which patients manage unsolicited advice and undesirable procedures with courage and grace. Article in Journal/Newspaper Metis Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice 2 1 14 26 |
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In this article, I explore the subject of supporting clients living with illness in the context of my counselling practice. I weave this approach to clinical practice, informed by response-based practice and the use of metaphor, together with my personal story of illness and recovery. I contextualise my own history as a Metis woman and therapist into the life of my family, living in Canada's north. There, my maternal family lived in the midst of uranium extraction, a form of mining that resourced the Cold War and fueled the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Canada's implication in militarism had devastating effects on Indigenous community members. I explore the use of metaphor as a form of co-constructed meaning in therapy. I present my own symbolic journey through cancer and treatment as a sacred pilgrimage in Spain. The various key points in treatment parallel significant stops along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. As well, I explore how clients negotiate medical systems, impositions and negative social responses, as well as how they resource love, strength and care from family and friends. I apply a framework of response-based practice, seeking to understand the ways in which people preserve dignity and try to maximize safety and well-being. This includes the ways in which patients manage unsolicited advice and undesirable procedures with courage and grace. |
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