Since narrative therapy, - created by Michael White and David Epston - , became internationally popular in the 1990s, many areas have worked on its development, and demonstrating its effectiveness. Narrative therapy questions dominant discourses about the symptom and seeks to address it, so that the child's identity is not defined by the problem. It focuses on the exceptions to the influence of the problem, and on the co-creation of new possibilities of functional relationship (solutions) between the child and the problem. The symposium includes four communications in which results and strategies of psychotherapeutic intervention applied to different areas are presented. In the first one, Dr. Silva presents a complete evidence-based psychotherapeutic process (17 sessions), applied to a case of a child diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This includes the narrative model of clinical interview and the psychometric and narrative instruments used for the evaluation. Next, Dr. Rangel presents the cognitive-narrative model of therapy, applied to an intervention with adolescents, and focused on the process of constructing meaning in life experiences. In the third intervention, Dr. Chimpén provides several types of therapeutic conversations with children who have been dominated by child-parent violence and who want to leave it away. It offers different therapeutic strategies, with deconstruction as the backbone of the intervention. Finally, Dr. Pacheco illustrates her narrative proposal for psychotherapeutic intervention in post-adoption through a case study of therapeutic success with an 11-year-old girl, who was adopted at 6, and diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

Meritxell Pacheco Pérez is a professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Educational Sciences of the Education FPCEE Blanquerna, Ramón Llull University (URL) since 2003, where she received her PhD in 2006 and was awarded with the extraordinary doctoral award. Since the beginning of her professional career, she has been dedicated to the training, from a constructivist-narrative perspective, of professionals who work in the children's and family areas, and specifically in the integrative and interdisciplinary intervention with adoptive families for the past ten years. She is a Professor of the Master in General Health Psychology (URL) as well as in postgraduate programs from other universities, mainly in the area of ​​childhood, family and constructivist therapies. She is a member of the Research Group on Psychology, Person, and Context (URL), and Director of the Family Adoption and Adoption Research line. She has been reviewer of scientific journals. She investigates and publishes mainly in the field of adoptive filiation as well as on the construction of the identity and the development of the psychotherapeutic process. She has coordinated and participated in numerous papers and oral communications, as well as participated in the co-organization of several congresses on psychotherapy and on constructivism, both nationally and internationally. Since 1997, Dr. Pacheco has integrated her academic and research activities with clinical practice. She is a psychotherapist accredited by FEAP and general health psychologist. Since 2014, she is co-director and psychotherapist at Myrios, an Institute for Psychological and Educational Psychology, working both in individual and family psychotherapy.