Couture2007
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Couture2007 |
| Author(s) | Shari J. Couture |
| Title | Multiparty talk in family therapy: complexity breeds opportunity |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Family Therapy, Discourse Analysis, Resistance |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Journal | Journal of Systemic Therapies |
| Volume | 26 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 63–82 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1521/jsyt.2007.26.1.63 |
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Abstract
Discursive investigations of multiparty talk can aid family therapists. In this article, discourse analysis was used to demonstrate how a therapist and family members concurrently engage multiple conversational partners to accomplish forward movement after conversational impasses. By looking closer at conversational practices, therapists can become more aware and creative as they attempt to move forward with clients. With the microlens cultivated in a discursive analysis, therapists can adopt alternative “conversational courses of action” as they become more sensitive to constructing “interventions” with clients. With this sensitivity, it is less likely that therapists will label clients resistant as they learn to become more resourceful and conversationally adaptive participants in stalled conversations. They may then better position themselves to recognize the enormous, often previously unnoticed, opportunities to join family members in multiparty talk.
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