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Narrative approaches to psychology converge around the idea that therapy is essentially a special kind of conversation that elicits a client's strengths, competencies, and solutions. The psychologist is seen to assist in creating conversations that reveal the client's expertise and empower the client to change. The narrative approach is potentially valuable to psychologists working with children with good oral language who are deaf or hard of hearing. Just as important, while the psychologist and the client explore and explicate complex issues within the problem-solving process, the "balance of power" is changed and the child becomes better able to assume control of the problem. Two case studies are used to explore the narrative process of "externalization" with children with good oral language who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Reconstructing Development Theory for the 21st Century -- The argument -- Part I: The Nature of Development Theory -- 1 The Crisis in Development Theory -- Paradigm conflicts and the developmental crisis -- Science, agency and developmental transitions -- Positivism, atomistic individualism and cultural relativism -- Development theory, western imperialism and cultural autonomy -- From right- or left-wing structuralism to neoliberalism -- Conclusions -- 2 The Basic Assumptions of Development Theory -- The idea of development and structural change -- Development as a normative aspiration -- Incrementalism, planning and developmental transitions -- Managing transitions: structuralism, markets and dualistic development -- Teleology, linearity and hybridity in development theory -- Conclusions -- 3 Evolutionary Institutional Change and Developmental Transitions -- Agency, institutional change and developmental transitions -- An evolutionary approach to developmental transformations -- Positivism, methodological individualism and evolutionary change -- Corporate capitalism, extended cooperation and uneven development -- Evolutionary theory, cultural relativism and dualistic development -- Evolutionary transformations, science and the politics of development -- Conclusions -- PART II: The Institutional Arrangements of Liberal Democratic Capitalism -- 4 Market Societies, Open Systems and Institutional Pluralism -- From paradigm conflicts to liberal institutional pluralism -- The structural and normative implications of institutional pluralism -- The benefits, costs and social consequences of market-based systems -- The political implications of economic regulation -- Conclusions.

In 1986 the National Resistance Movement took power after a long civil war. It established close links with the donor community and has been implementing an Economic Recovery Programme. Law and order has been restored across most of the country, economic growth has resumed and a limited process of political democratization has occurred. This has involved radical institutional change including a decline in the capacity of what was once a highly centralized and monopolistic state sector and the growth of new capacities in local government, small scale private business and voluntary agencies of various kinds. The ability to reform old structures and create new ones to provide cost effective and appropriate services for the rural poor - whether in health, education, or economic services - is now determining the options available to policy makers concerned to develop an effective poverty alleviation programme. This book attempts to extend the analysis of adjustment policy by examining this process of institutional transformation, evaluating the relative success of the various structures involved, and suggesting ways in which the process could be strengthened and improved. (DÜI-Hff)