5. Grace Notes: Singing in Marion’s Hospital Room

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Writing as Discovery and Healing
8. 1. Stuck 13
9. 2. Garden at Vaucresson 30
10. 3. Another Kind of Witnessing 45
11. Part II. Narrative Social Work with Individuals and Families
12. 4. The Reluctant Storyteller 67
13. 5. Grace Notes: Singing in Marion’s Hospital Room 79
14. 6. One Family’s Experience of Falling Out of Health 85
15. 7. Scheherazade 97
16. 8. Sharing a Narrative Meal 108
17. Part III. Narrative Social Work with Groups
18. 9. Storytelling and Listening 125
19. 1. I Like Dancing and Singing and Prancing and Flinging 144
20. 11. Jesse’s Story 156
21. 12. With Every Story We Rise 168
22. Part IV. Narrative Social Work in Education, Supervision, and Research
23. 13. Transnational Parenting 185
24. 14. The Worker–Mentor Story 201
25. 15. Narrative Research a 213
26. 16. Reading and Writing Really Are Fundamental 234
27. Conclusion 247
28. Contributors 251
29. Index 255