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Article: A narrative therapy approach to counseling: a model for working with adolescents and adults with language-literacy deficits.
- Article from:
- Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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ABSTRACT: Purpose: Remediation efforts with adolescents and adults with language-literacy deficits (LLD) may be hindered by concomitant factors such as decreased self-esteem and self-efficacy. Despite sound linguistically based remediation practices, treatment lacking integrated counseling components may fail to achieve optimal outcomes. In this tutorial, we recount a counseling approach, specifically a narrative therapy counseling approach based on constructivist theory, to be used with adolescents and adults with LLD.
Method: A review of the literature includes research on the use of counseling in communication disorders settings and on the application of a ...