Brief Narrative Interventions

The protocol treats narrative interventions as potentially useful complements or alternatives to more time-intensive treatments such as traditional psychotherapy. The review defines brief narrative interventions as having no more than four discrete sessions, usually about 60 minutes each. Narrative interventions are based on the premise that arranging a difficult experience into a coherent story can help assign structure and meaning to it. The four-session limit may exclude benefits that emerge only after longer exposure to an intervention. Brief narrative interventions elicit a participant's personal story with the intention of improving outcomes in that same participant.