Gaete-etal2018

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Gaete-etal2018
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Gaete-etal2018
Author(s) Joaquín Gaete, Olga Smoliak, Shari Couture
Title Reflexive questions as constructive interventions: a discursive perspective
Editor(s) Olga Smoliak, Tom Strong
Tag(s) EMCA, Discursive Psychology, Researcher reflexivity, Questions
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2018
Language English
City London
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Pages 117–140
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DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-93067-1_6
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Book title Therapy as Discourse: Practice and Research
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Abstract

This chapter aims to promote dialogue between discursively-oriented researchers and therapists, by exploring reflexive questions as a specific discursive therapy practice that can be used to co-construct preferred understandings of clients’ relationships, identities, experiences, and actions. From a discursive psychology approach, we suggest that the constructive potential of reflexive questions rests in triggering and accomplishing preferred (acceptable and helpful) formulations of such self-understandings. In our view, this type of preferred attribution work is therapeutic in that it conversationally accomplishes client-preferred meanings and fosters clients’ autonomy and capacity to generate change on their own. In order to empirically demonstrate these therapeutic effects, we use a discursive psychological approach to analyze exemplars of reflexive questions. Based on our suggestion that understanding therapy outcomes and client’s agency can be seen as situated conversational accomplishment, we end discussing some methodological, theoretical and ethical implications for therapy research and practice.

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