THE BUTTERFLY JOURNEY: APPLYING NARRATIVE THERAPY TO SUPPORT THE TRANSITION PROCESS FOR TEEN GIRLS' IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT INTO WOMANHOOD.

Teen girls face a variety of transitional challenges in life. These challenges have led to an increase in depression and hopelessness, suicide attempts, and deaths by suicide for teen girls. This manuscript outlines a narrative therapy-based group format called 'The Butterfly Journey' to support counselors as they guide teen girls through a reauthoring process rooted in strengthbased theory. The narrative therapy process promotes the articulation of preferred identities and in this therapeutic group, our intention is to provide counselors with a tool to encourage and empower a greater sense of self-worth for teen girls. 'The Butterfly Journey' is structured as five separate parts of a whole experience. The objective of this manuscript is to serve as a flexible resource for counselors, providing a framework that may be implemented exactly as it is written or adapted to accommodate and fit specific needs of various groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]