In the Biographical Time Bar, a person’s real biography is regarded as a multidimensional event. Based on a (biographical) interview, the client’s biography in terms of family and living situation, education, work, health, and assistance is recorded along timelines. The joint analysis allows for targeted intervention planning that recognises and promotes individual coping strategies. Like other biographical methods, the use of a time bar aims at supporting Social Work clients to

• reinforce their experience of identify in the here and now,
• articulate, classify, and reflect on disruptions, crises, critical life events, and turnaround situations in their biography,
• develop explanatory approaches and attributions of meaning that are conducive to their own feeling of self-worth and coping actions,
• design a meaningful life history that takes the possibilities and limits of their own “directing capability” into account,
• develop an awareness of their own strengths and resources.

What this website offers:

• Web application: direct access to the software and creation of Biographical Time Bars
• User manual: comprehensive information on the software’s optimal use
• Toolkit biographical diagnosis: material for deepening the knowledge about biographical diagnosis and the application of Biographical Time Bars
• Development history: Learn more about the development of easyBiograph.