Strong-Turner2008

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Strong-Turner2008
BibType ARTICLE
Key Strong-Turner2008
Author(s) Tom Strong, Katie Turner
Title Resourceful dialogues: eliciting and mobilizing client competencies and resources
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Tag(s) EMCA, Process research, Therapeutic discourse, Social constructionist therapies
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Year 2008
Language English
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Journal Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
Volume 38
Number 4
Pages 185–195
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DOI 10.1007/s10879-008-9076-2
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Abstract

Within the social constructionist (narrative, solution-focused and collaborative language systems) therapies, therapists have increasingly focused on identifying and mobilizing clients’ resources and competencies. How such client resources and competencies are identified and elaborated can be considered empirical matters for analysts of therapeutic discourse. The present paper examines resourceful sequences of dialogue in 12 single session lifestyle consultations for how counsellors conversationally engaged consultees, and for what transpired within these sequences of dialogue. These sequences were micro-analyzed using conversation analysis and retrospective comments from consultees and therapists involved in these sequences were solicited using a videotaped replay procedure known as comprehensive process analysis [Elliott (1989). In M. Packer & R. B. Addison (Eds.), Entering the circle: Hermeneutic investigation in psychology (pp. 165–184). Albany, NY: SUNY Press]. The combined conversation analyses and related comments for three of the 23 videotaped passages analyzed are reported with the aim of enhancing therapists’ conversational practices in hosting resourceful dialogues with clients.

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