The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice

Editors' Introduction - Sheila McNamee, Mary Gergen, Celiane Camargo-Borges, & Emerson F. Rasera
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Constructionist Theory and the Blossoming of Practice - Kenneth J. Gergen
Part 2: Research Practices
Chapter 2: Introduction to Research Section - Mary Gergen
Chapter 3: Research as Innovation: An Invitation to Creative and Imaginative Inquiry Processes - Celiane Camargo Borges & Sheila McNamee
Chapter 4: Collaborative Action Research: Co-constructing Social Change for the Common Good - Ottar Ness & Dina von Heimburg
Chapter 5: Action Research and Social Constructionism: Community of Inquiry/Practice - Hilary Bradbury
Chapter 6: Research as Performative Inquiry - Mary Gergen
Chapter 7: We Are All Researchers - Sally St. George & Dan Wulff
Chapter 8: To Know and Not to Know: Dialogic Social Inquiry - Rocio Chaveste & ML Papusa Molina
Chapter 9: Transmaterial Worlding as Inquiry - Gail Simon & Leah Salter
Chapter 10: Researching Socio-material Practices: Inquiries into the Human/non-human Interweave - Tanya Mudry & Tom Strong
Part 3: Practices in Therapeutic Professions
Chapter 11: Curiosity and Generativity: Welcome to Practices in the Therapeutic Professions - Sally St. George & Dan Wulff
Chapter 12: Social Construction and Social Work Practice - Stanley L. Witkin & Christopher Hall
Chapter 13: Collaborative-Dialogic Practice: A Relational Process of Inviting Generativity and Possibilities - Harlene Anderson
Chapter 14: Generative Dialogues: Creating Resources and Possibilities in Therapy - Dora Fried Schnitman
Chapter 15: How Symbolic Witnesses Can Help Counter Dominant Stories and Enrich Communities of Concern - Jasmina Sermijn
Chapter 16: Contributions of Social Constructionism to Group Work - Emerson F. Rasera & Carla Guanaes-Lorenzi
Chapter 17: Constructing Social Therapeutics - Lois Holzman
Chapter 18: Integrative Community Therapy: Creating a Communitarian Context of Generative and Transformative Conversations - Marilene Grandesso
Chapter 19: Individuals in Competition of Communities in Connection? Narrative Therapy in the Era of Neoliberalism - Jill Freedman & Gene Combs
Chapter 20: Post-Truth and a Justification for Therapeutic Initiative - Karl Tomm
Part 4: Practices in Organizational Development
Chapter 21: When Social Constructionism Joins the Organization Development Conversation - Diana Whitney
Chapter 22: Relational Ethics in Organizational Life - Gitte Haslebo
Chapter 23: Working with Relational Leading and Meaning Making in Teams of Leaders - Lone Hersted
Chapter 24: Coaching: Using Ordinary Words in Extraordinary Ways - Haesun Moon
Chapter 25: Relational Practices for Generative Multi-Actor Collaboration - Johan Hovelynck, Marc Craps, Art Dewulf, Koen Sips, Tharsi Taillier, & Rene Bouwen
Chapter 26: Designing Relationally Responsive Organizations - Ginny Belden-Charles, Morgan Mann Willis, & Jenny Lee
Chapter 27: Large Scale Appreciative Inquiry: New Futures through Shared Conversations - Amanda Trosten-Bloom & Barbara Lewis
Chapter 28: Zooming in on the Micro-Dynamics of Social Innovation: Enabling Novelty through Relational Constructionist Practice - Danielle Zandee
Chapter 29: Social Construction and the Practice of Dialogic Organization Development - Gervase Bushe & Robert Marshak
Part 5: Practices in Education
Chapter 30: Education as Relational Process and Practice: Introduction - Thalia Dragonas
Chapter 31: Lifescaping: Cultivating Flourishing School Cultures - Rolla Lewis
Chapter 32: Creating School Harmony - Gro Emmertsen Lund
Chapter 33: Creating New Futures through Collaboration: Dropouts No More - Ingebjorg Maeland
Chapter 34: Collaborative, Appreciative, and Experiential Pedagogy in Educational Settings - Dawn Dole
Chapter 35: School Counseling - Michael Williams & John Winslade
Chapter 36: Relief of Critical Educational Psychology and the Nomadism of Critical Disability Studies: Social Constructionism in Practice - Tom Billington & Dan Goodley
Chapter 37: Specific Learning Difficulties as a Relational Category: Reconstruction, Redistribution and Resistance in Higher Educational Practice - Harriet Cameron
Chapter 38: Intercultural Education: Empowering Minority Learners - Thalia Dragonas
Chapter 39: Educational Evaluation: A Relational Perspective - Scherto Gill & Kenneth Gergen
Part 6: Practices in Healthcare
Chapter 40: Political, Collaborative and Creative: Dimensions of Social Constructionist Health Care Practices - Murilo S. Moscheta
Chapter 41: Collaborative Re-construction of Health Care - Ellen Raboin & Paul N. Uhlig
Chapter 42: Words Matter: Promoting Relationality in Healthcare through Narrative Medicine - Karen Gold
Chapter 43: Strengthening Our Stories in the Second Half of Life: Narrative Resilience through Narrative Care - William Randall
Chapter 44: From an Individualist to a Relational Model of Grief - Lorraine Hedtke
Chapter 45: Changing the Conversation: Appreciative Inquiry and Appreciative Practices in Healthcare - Natalie May, Julie Haizlip, & Margaret Plews-Ogan
Chapter 46: Populating Recovery: Mobilizing Relational Sources for Healing Addiction - Pavel Nepustil
Chapter 47: Health Care Practices for LGBT People - Murilo S. Moscheta & Emerson F. Rasera
Chapter 48: Mindfulness as a Generative Resource in Compassionate Health - Edgardo Morales
Chapter 49: Toward Relational Engagement: Poetic Reflections in Care - Arlene Katz & Kathleen Clark with Elizabeth Jameson
Chapter 50: Play Creates Well-being: The Contingency and the Creativity of Human Interation - Saliha Bava
Part 7: Community Practices
Chapter 51: Community Building from a Social Constructionist Lens - Marie L. Hoskins
Chapter 52: Narrative Mediation - John Winslade & Gerald Monk
Chapter 53: Inclusion and Community Building: Profoundly Particular - Janet Newbury
Chapter 54: Placemaking, Social Construction, and the Global South - Celiane Camargo-Borges & Cesar Ferragi
Chapter 55: Re-imagining the Welfare State: From Systems Delivery to Collaborative Relationship - Jacob Storch & Carsten Hornstrop
Chapter 56: Transformative Community Conferencing - A Constructionist Approach to a More Hopeful Future - David Hooker
Chapter 57: Relational Community Practices for Transitional Societies - Victoria Lugo
Chapter 58: Knowing Ourselves in the Stories of Us: The Inclusive Practice of "Be-Longing" - Ilene C. Wasserman & Erin W. Taylor
Chapter 59: Intergenerative Community Building: Intergenerational Relationship for Co-creating Flourishing Futures - Kristin Bodiford & Peter Whitehouse
Chapter 60: Social Construction, Practical Theology, and the Practices of Religious Communities - Duane R. Bidwell