Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interviewing

<p><em>Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interviewing: Illuminating Culture and Meaning </em>introduces readers to the Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview (CENI) a user-friendly engaging and qualitative way for both narrators and interviewers to have culturally sensitive trauma-informed holistic and beneficial exchanges about clinical experiences distress and recovery.</p><p> </p><p>The text shows how the CENI is situated within the broader arena of patient-centered narrative approaches and holistic care models. Readers learn how the method meets several contemporary interviewing challenges simultaneously including: the need to conduct culturally open assessments in an increasingly multicultural world; the need to incorporate trauma-informed interview methods in clinical environments; and the need to provide participants with an experience that enhances their self-understanding and promotes health-seeking and recovery.</p><p> </p><p>The book reviews foundational theoretical perspectives about clinical ethnography narrative memory humanistic and meaning-centered assessment and trauma-informed interviewing approaches. Interview elements of the CENI are discussed along with background rationale challenges solutions and patterns of responses. Readers are provided with salient interviewing strategies such as pacing containment holding reauthoring and resolution. The book contains detailed accounts from two real-world cases and concludes with guidance for use of the CENI as a research and clinical practice tool.</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interviewing </em>is part of the Cognella Series on Family and Gender-Based Violence an interdisciplinary collection of textbooks edited by Claire Renzetti Ph.D. The titles feature cross-cultural perspectives cutting-edge strategies and interventions and timely research on family and gender-based violence.</p>