Narrative as a psychotechnical tool in working with personality sovereignty of the adolescent

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Abstract

We consider the issues of the adolescent’s personal sovereignty formation in a narrative training. The narrative is defined as a text, a meaning system, first divided between people and then interiorized. We substantiate the possibility of using the narrative as a psychotechnical tool in working with the personality sovereignty of the adolescent. Its formation is connected to the adolescent’s mastering of reflexive action aimed at the meaningful organization of his/her experience of successful autonomous behavior. The essence of the narrative training is constructing the narrative (narrative metaphor). We consider two aspects of the narrative metaphor: the domain of action landscape and the domain of meaning, that help the adolescent to signify and make sense of the unique episodes of his/her life and to structure the fragmented experiences of his/her successful independent behavior.

General Information

Keywords: psychological sovereignty of the personality, psychotechnical tool, narrative, adolescence.

Journal rubric: Workshop and Methods

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2018260208

For citation: Elfimova M.M. Narrative as a psychotechnical tool in working with personality sovereignty of the adolescent. Konsul'tativnaya psikhologiya i psikhoterapiya = Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy, 2018. Vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 125–134. DOI: 10.17759/cpp.2018260208. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Mariya M. Elfimova, PhD in Psychology, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental and Pedagogical Psychology, Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0996-6309, e-mail: elfimovamarya@yandex.ru

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