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Volume 20 International Journal of Emergency Mental
Health and Human Resilience
ISSN: 1522-4821
Mental Health 2018
April 26-27, 2018
April 26-27, 2018 | Rome, Italy
4th International Conference on
Mental Health and Human Resilience
Reconstructing a story from a therapeutic narrative to a narrative for social change; an innovative
model for social change with people who cope with serious mental illness in the community
Inbar Adler-ben Dor and Noa Gal-Or Teperberg
Amitim program, The Israel Association of Community Centers (IACC), Israel
The approach of therapeutic narrative suggests that people will re-tell their story to themselves and then re-tell it to others
in their environment. In contrast to this approach, we aim to present a model of narrative reconstruction for social change
in people with serious mental illness (SMI), aiming to combine a reduction in self-stigma and in social stigma. The model
we shall present is part of the Amitim program (by the Israeli Ministry of Health and the Israeli Association of Community
Center), which offers social rehabilitation services in the community for people with SMI, and the promotion of personal
recovery and social change. Over the last decade Amitim program has reached 75 cities nationwide and gives service to 3000
people with SMI. Amitim's story reconstruction model includes several dimensions: first, the narrative is approached through
several baseline questions: who is the audience, what is the purpose, and what is the message we want to convey by telling the
recovery story. The story is then externalized to a text, and the narrators (i.e., people with SMI) learn to tell it in a way that
enables listeners to accept it, and to promote social change. This, in turn, causes the narrators to build a new identity and learn
to mediate their story to both themselves and their environment, i.e., the manner in which they re-build their story for the
audience, enables them to reconstruct it within themselves. In the proposed workshop, we aim to delineate different formats
for using this model with people with SMI, while discussing the dilemmas that arise and providing examples based on video
interviews with participants.
Recent Publications:
1. Carlson T D and Erickson M J (2001) Honoring and privileging personal experience and knowledge: Ideas for a
narrative therapy approach to the training and supervision of new therapists. Contemporary Family Therapy
23(2):199-220.
2. Green M C and Brock T C (2000) the role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. Journal of
personality and social psychology 79(5):701.721.
3. Halperin G and Boz-Mizrahi T (2008) The Amitim program: an innovative program for the social rehabilitation of
people with mental illness in the community. The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences 46(2):149-156.
4. Roe D and Davidson L (2005) self and narrative in schizophrenia: time to author a new story. Medical Humanities
31(2):89-94.
5. Roe D, Hasson-Ohayon I, Mashiach-Eizenberg M, Derhy O, Lysaker P H and Yanos P T (2014) Narrative enhancement
and cognitive therapy (NECT) effectiveness: A quasi-experimental study. Journal of clinical psychology. 70(4):303-
312.
Biography
Inbar Adler-ben Dor and Noa Gal-Or Teperberg are working at Israel Association of Community Centers (IACC), Haifa University, Israel.
Inbar Adler-ben Dor et al., Int J Emerg Ment Health 2018, Volume 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C1-011