The narrative in social work: interviews family as space of re-construction of stories

Abstract

The article tries to establish a connection between story and life, between the story and the fellow; it assumes the narration like model interpretante of the lived reality. In this order a narrative identity is built that Ricoeur denominates ipseida; it is not a substantial or formal identity but of a dynamic structure that includes the change, the changeability, in the cohesion of a life. In the space of the family interview, the Social Work as profession people that relate facts, events and events of the life finds; two narrations of the reality are confronted: that of the family and that that the family builds in interview space next to the social worker. The action is creative of history that one must understand as chronicle, like story or I eat narration, sharing and co-building stories, narrations and histories, worker-to social and family goes learning what is the own human condition. The members of the family possess an image of themselves; not arbitrary but clerk of those images of the past that are fruit of the stories that configure their symbolic tradition, and that they can be re-elaborated and re-figured presently. The interview moment is the space in that our profession - Social work- he/she listens and knows narrations about that family reality that its members relate. The desencadenante will be able to be the coconstruction of a story or re-meant alternative history and re-significant, in which both parts will have contributed.