ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how we can apply narrative ideas and practices to indirect ways of working. Indirect work in this context is where the therapist intervenes to support other services and professionals engaged with the person seeking help. It aims to consider how the therapist can integrate narrative ideas into current practices, protocols, and service guidelines. It will discuss areas of work that can be seen to be more distant from the person at the centre: ranging from consultation through to record-keeping with all interventions, seeking to re-orientate conversations back to the people we seek to help. Thus, this chapter is an exploration of how therapists “can scaffold professionals”, and others engaged in the work, to develop and thicken preferred stories of the people they support.
