Wow narrative vs narrative reasoning is a rather confusing concept. Ok I get narrative, as in my own narrative and my client's narrative. That's a bit like the "illness stories" I have been reading about in Arthur Frank's work. Narrative as a story, okay. But narrative reasoning? The group session this week made me think about whether narrative reasoning is part of, subsumed under the 3 track, or is it an alternative model to explain reasoning? Or...
I get the New York Subway example, and I also thought of an example of my own from placement - when I was doing paeds, and I was working with a boy with autism, who was a bit sensory defensive (is that the term?), anyway he hated getting shaving foam on his fingers and one day when I came up with an idea to use his love of animals to try and help him engage and challenge his defensiveness and try to overcome it. When we got to the part where we were supposed to do the shaving foam (because we used to do a series of short activities, all represented in a visual schedule, which he liked), I sprayed it in a thick line instead of just everywhere, and told him that was a river, then I produced a huge bucket of tiny plastic animals and said well here are the animals and they want to cross the river so shall we help them? The boy started off gingerly but he warmed up and seemed to really enjoy lining them up in the "river" and almost seemed to forget the shaving foam was all over his hands. The animals didn't end up "crossing" the "river" but instead he helped them to "swim" all along up and down the river and ended up having a grand old time!
I think that's what meant by narrative reasoning?
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