Application of Narrative Therapy in a Social Work Group of Caregivers with Mental Health Disorders

Abstract

Social workers from China found in their community service and interview: Caregivers of individuals with people with mental disorders Lack of sense of meaning in life. They showed simple narration content, narration style, pessimism, low identity recognition. Caregivers think Causing their life stress, family economic difficulties. the psychological pressure is because of their have a mental illness person in. family. Social workers follow the concept of helping people to help themselves, hoping to improve the sense of meaning of life for these caregivers and change their perception. Thirty family carers of the mentally disabled have been chosen to receive life narration treatment in a social work group. this is the main content of social work practice research. In practice, Social worker which has adopted various kinds of narration methods such as life narration, sand table narration, story narration, drawing narration, etc. The practice of This social work group helps carers discover their life meaning from the experiences of care mental illness. this is a valuable practice of social work service for families with mental disorder. This is done with application value of promotion.