Williams-Auburn2015

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Williams-Auburn2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Williams-Auburn2015
Author(s) Lynsey Williams, Tim Auburn
Title Accessible polyvocality and paired talk: how family therapists talk positive connotation into being
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Tag(s) EMCA, Reflective practice, Family Therapy
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Journal of Family Therapy
Volume 38
Number 4
Pages 535–554
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DOI 10.1111/1467-6427.12096
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Abstract

In this article we identify one particular way in which the reflecting team process is used by family therapists. We show that reflecting teams draw upon occasions in the main session to intensify and extend positivity in the reflecting session. This analysis identified positive connotation as a device by which a hopeful orientation is established. Videos of family therapy sessions were obtained and transcripts of these sessions made. Excerpts with hope and positivity were identified and conversation analysis was used to gain insight into the organization and function of this talk. In addition, therapist interventions occurring during the main therapy session and which were reworked in the reflecting session were identified and analyzed. Sixteen examples of this paired talk are presented, and two exemplars are analyzed in full. Main session interpretations of talk and the reflecting team second versions (a device identified as paired talk) were found to work together as a resource for the construction and reinforcement of positive connotation in family therapy.

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