Busch, Robbie2011-03-032016-03-062016-09-07NO_RESTRIC2011-03-032016-03-062016-09-072007Busch, R. (2007). Transforming evidence: A discursive evaluation of narrative therapy case studies. The Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology, 7(2), 8-15.1443-9697http://hdl.handle.net/10179/9737A recent shift in American Psychological Association policy for what constitutes as evidence in psychotherapy has resulted in the inclusion of qualitative methodologies. Narrative therapy is a discursive therapy that is theoretically incongruent with the prevailing gold standard of experimental methodology in psychotherapy outcome evaluation. By using a discursive evaluation methodology that is congruent with narrative therapy this study of six peer-reviewed narrative therapy case articles found shifts in client positioning in the transformation from medical pathology discourses to strength-based discourses. It is concluded that five out of six case studies coherently demonstrated the effectiveness of narrative therapy with positive outcomes for clients and that a discursive evaluation has utility in producing a thick description of therapeutic outcome.enNarrative therapyEvidence-based practiceDiscourseNarrative validationPsychotherapy evaluationDiscursive evaluationFields of Research::380000 Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences::380100 PsychologyJournal ArticleMassey_DarkMassey_Dark