Toward phenomenological comprehension of meaning construction process: narrative assessment grid applicability

Abstract

The narrative activity has constituted an integral structure for organizing and making meaning of the human experience. The current study has two main objectives linked to the narrative activity. The first aim of the project is the comprehension of the human meaning-making process. To accomplish this objective, we analyze how narratives are understood from the three main approaches that have reviewed them; the constructionist approach, the systemic approach and the cognitive approach. Finally, we situate our study in the integrative approach which is the relational constructivism. A second main objective of our study is to contrast the psychotherapeutic applicability and relevance of the Narrative Evaluation Grid, which is an innovative and pioneering proposal. It was first proposed by Botella & Gámiz (2011), and it was used to compare patients with therapeutic outcome with patients without it. This study tries to contrast and extend their results, increasing the sample analyzed and focusing on the source of the client’s complains.