Strong-etal2008

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Strong-etal2008
BibType ARTICLE
Key Strong-etal2008
Author(s) Tom Strong, Robbie Busch, Shari Couture
Title Conversational evidence in therapeutic dialogue
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Tag(s) EMCA, Family Therapy, Applied Conversation Analysis
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Year 2008
Language English
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Journal Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Volume 34
Number 3
Pages 388–405
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DOI 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00079.x
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Abstract

Family therapists’ participation in therapeutic dialogue with clients is typically informed by evidence of how such dialogue is developing. In this article, we propose that conversational evidence, the kind that can be empirically analyzed using discourse analyses, be considered a contribution to widening psychotherapy’s evidence base. After some preliminaries about what we mean by conversational evidence, we provide a genealogy of evaluative practice in psychotherapy, and examine qualitative evaluation methods for their theoretical compatibilities with social constructionist approaches to family therapy. We then move on to examine the notion of accomplishment in therapeutic dialogue given how such accomplishments can be evaluated using conversation analysis. We conclude by considering a number of research and pedagogical implications we associate with conversational evidence.

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