El modelo narrativo en la psicoterapia constructivista y construccionista

My purpose here is to identify, in theoretical and practical areas, the forms which takes the narrative metaphor on the social constructionist and constructivist psychotherapy. First I briefly talk about the narrative concept and five possible reasons for their psychotherapeutic adoption: the increasing interest for the meaning process, requirement for emotions working models, the need for creating a background for the client's problems, and the narrative as a possibility of more integration in the mental health field. Second, to analyze the particular ways which takes the narrative metaphor in the constructionist and constructivist psychotherapy, I present the more important epistemological (knowledge process, locus of meaning, and self ) and methodological statements in each one of this orientations. Finally, I mention the most important convergence and present a discussion about four divergences that may have methodological relevance in the psychotherapeutic practice: speech versus sequencing process, relationship versus individual, polivocally versus univocally, and moveon versus self-understanding.