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Item Open Access 'n Narratief-pastorale benadering in maatskaplike werk(University of the Free State, 2004-05) Moore, Anna Gesina; De Jager, H. J.; Janse van Rensburg, J.English: The arrival of the new millennium was greeted with great excitement, but the concerned feeling one gets when looking around, is one of negativity, pessimism, trauma and despair. Many people feel lost, accompanied by deep personal insecurities, pain, sadness and a feeling of total failure. The reason for this state of affairs has relevance to the current political and social structures because it offers no personal stability. It is thus deemed necessary that the dejectedness that got hold of many South Africans has to be transformed into faith and trust in the future. One may justly ask how does one learn to survive if one’s whole world has come to nothing. The search for answers to this cardinal question is the research field that has been investigated through an explorative and descriptive study. The investigation was done in four logical phases. The first phase consists of the planning of the research and serves as a determining summary giving an indication of why and how the investigation is planned and how the subject-matter will be presented. In the second phase attention is given to problem-formulation and the development of a theoretical framework for a pastoral-social layout. To achieve this, attention is given to the implications of anthropological paradigms, post modern narrative principles, and pastoral theological narrative principles. Furthermore the history of social work is explored with emphasis on the role that religion plays. In addition methods utilized in pastoral therapy to acknowledge the existence of a spiritual dimension has been attended to. In the third phase follows a discussion on a diaconiologically based narrative pastoral perspective for social work. In addition to that a theoretical and practical based framework comprising of narrative principles and techniques is attended to. In the discussion of perspectives on a basis theory for social work, reference is made to: a narrative pastoral epistemology, the development of Biblical based narrative perspectives, narratives, stories, the utilization of stories based on Biblical principles, the use of stories in a therapeutic context, cultural values and stories, and diaconiologically based narrative-therapeutic principles for social work. Based on the aforementioned theory, attention is given to narrative therapeutic perspectives such as: the beginning of a therapeutic interview, deconstruction theories, externalising, re-authoring of stories, ceremonies, remembering discussions and taking it back actions. In the last phase of the study attention is given to the execution of a limited phenomenological investigation. For this purpose a focus group has been used. The data gathered from the focus group discussion is interpreted in a hermeneutical manner to draw certain conclusions to support the literature review. To complete this phase, conclusions are made of the preliminary investigation in an explorative way with applicable recommendations to be implemented in practice. In substance the conclusions and recommendations are the following: At this point of time we live in an era of postmodernism. Science cannot escape the influence of post modern thought. The essence that has to be noted in an interview, is the moving away from firm values and firm interpretations. Language is allocated with the status of a regulatory norm that counts. It denies the existence of any truth or principles. All attempts to create truth are deconstructed by using language. The existence of the Bible, that it is God’s Word and that it has a transcendent character, is rejected. In reaction to post modernistic narrative approaches and current social problems such as social decline (ethical development), material needs (poverty) and spiritual needs (pastoral eschatology) it has been found that Christian social work grounded in a pastoral design can make a contribution to change the current decline in society. It can be done by using Christian narrative principles. In this way man is made aware of Transcendent Hope as well as a lifestyle with an immortality view.