McVittie-etal2020
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | McVittie-etal2020 |
| Author(s) | Chris McVittie, Slavka Craig, Margaret Temple |
| Title | A conversation analysis of communicative changes in a time-limited psychotherapy group for mothers with post-natal depression |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, In press, Group psychotherapy, Mothers, Therapeutic change, Post-natal depression |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Psychotherapy Research |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2019.1694721 |
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Abstract
Objective: To examine qualitatively changes occurring in discussions within a time-limited psychotherapy group for mothers with post-natal depression.
Method: Discussions occurring in a group that comprised five mothers and a therapist were recorded over the course of six one-hour therapeutic sessions. Participants had been referred or had self-referred to the group on the basis of having post-natal depression. The recorded discussions were transcribed and then analysed in accordance with principles of conversation analysis.
Results: Analysis of early and later group discussions showed changes in group members’ alignment with the topics that were introduced, in turn-allocation and turn-taking, and in the co-construction of accounts of experience. In contrast to early discussions, in later discussions participants aligned with topics relating to personal emotions, self-selected as next speakers in the discussions, and collaboratively worked up accounts that made sense of their experiences of childbirth and of being diagnosed as having post-natal depression.
Conclusions: Interactional changes over the duration of the group point to the benefits for mothers with post-natal depression of participating in a time-limited psychotherapy group. Fine-grained analysis of group discussions potentially offers a way of examining changes over time in psychotherapeutic groups more generally.
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