Grounding counselling in conversation's possibilities. Manuscript submitted for publication - An article that suggests replacing the scientist-practitioner model of counselling for a perspective that is dialogic and social constructionist. The article is intended for relative newcomers to postmodern thinking as it relates to counselling. 

Collaborative influence - manuscript submitted for publication. A meditation on the theme that one cannot help but be influential in therapy, so the thoughts offered relate to how to be influential in a collaborative manner. Of interest to those interested in narrative, solution-focused and collaborative language systems models of therapy. 

Do you want this story to die with you? (in press) Journal of Systemic Therapies - A single session therapeutic intervention is shared by myself and client, Tom Flynn (who wishes to be known). The intervention is largely based on the circulation of knowledges among concerned others, as depicted in narrative therapy. 

Micro- and Macro-Conversations in conspiring with Chronic Pain: (in press) Journal of Systemic Therapies. An article that explores the discourses of suffering and their role in how clients articulate their hurt and negotiate their suffering. Specific suggestions for facilitating new forms of conversation (micro-conversations) are offered in a manner consistent with body-focused hypnotherapy and narrative therapy. 

Conversations About Conversations on Chronic Pain and Illness: SomeAssumptions and Questions for A One Day Workshop. Gecko: The journal of deconstruction and narrative practice 2 (1): 45-63 1997 - An overview of social constructionist ideas I bring to my work with sufferers and caregivers. The questions are borrowed from narrative therapy and solution-focused therapy, and are regarded as a means to changing the way conversations about pain and illness are held among those influenced by its presence. 

50 Reflective Questions on Stuckness in Collaborative Helping: Journal of Collaborative Therapies V Summer 1997 (pp. 21-22) - An amalgam of questions, based on the ideas of narrative, solution-focused, collaborative language systems and strategic therapy. The questions are intended to be reflective tools for times when therapists feel "stuck" in their work. 

Can you get it down to one page? Journal of Systemic Therapies Vol. 16 
69-71 1997 - A one page handout from my workshops which offers a process-linked overview of skills used in the collaborative therapies (solution-focused, narrative, collaborative language systems, and MRI 
models). 

Questions, stuckness, and remoralization. Journal of Collaborative 
Therapies Volume 4 Summer 1996 (26-32) - This article suggests that clients' difficulties can be reframed as questions needing answers. The therapy is about hearing and articulating meaningful questions from clients and then developing shared strategies and evaluation criteria for answering these questions. Based on a largely narrative and solution-focused perspective.

Clinical Languages / Clinical Realities: Human Systems: Journal of Systemic Consultation and Management  Volume 6 (1) 53-65 (1995) - A reflection on the constraints and possibilities afforded us by different languages used in  psychotherapy. Reviews the DSM-IV's implications for self-understanding, the business of mental health, and for therapeutic conversation in general. 

DSM-IV and describing problems in family therapy, Family Process, 32 
(249-253) 1993 - An overview of the development of the DSM-IV alongside 
parallel developments in family therapy. The implications for practitioners whose therapy is informed by constructivist and social constructionist ideas are also explored. 

Three unique stories: Clients and therapist discover doors to new possibilities. Family Therapy Case Studies, 6, 34-40 1991 - An exploration 
of collaborative possibilities within a largely strategic framework. Three 
client situations are reviewed and illustrate efforts to fashion unique 
therapies with each client situation. 

Relationships between coping beliefs, coping practices, coping resources and quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Alberta January 1990 - This was a quantitative study that related clients' coping efforts and resources to their overall quality of life. There is a section of this I have returned to in my work on the social/cultural constructions of suffering and caring. 

Metaphors and client change in counselling. International Journal for the 
Advancement of Counselling, 12, 203-214. Fall 1989 - This article comes 
out of my immersion in the work of Milton Erickson. After a brief review 
of metaphors and metaphoric processing, I suggest three ways to work with, 
and within, client metaphors.