Abstract
The aim of the article is to summarize the diploma thesis The Narrative Therapy for Children Traumatized by their Parent´s Divorce. The whole text of the thesis is available in the digital repository of The Charles University.
This thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part deals with two separate realms which are then interconnected in the practical part.
The first realm is narrative therapy, its description, function and implementation. One of the tools of narrative therapy is a therapeutic narration, which is discussed therein and is set into the field of social work.
Next comes the second realm which is the topic of a divorce and children. There were discuss the influence of a divorce on children, the participants, and we are presented with the potentiality of how to diminish the negative influence.
In the following practical part, we first find a draft of a narration with therapeutic features form narrative therapy for children from divorced and divorcing families; the draft is supposed to alleviate the complications during and after a divorce. The other section of the practical part describes the research which verified whether the composed narration really helped alleviate the negative impact of a divorce on children.
Evaluation of the state of problematic areas performed both before and after the cooperation showed that narrative therapy helped to significantly decrease the number of serious problems in monitored areas.