Madill2001

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Madill2001
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Key Madill2001
Author(s) Anna Madill, Sue Widdicombe, Michael Barkham
Title The potential of Conversation Analysis for psychotherapy research
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Psychotherapy, Problem Formulation
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Year 2001
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Journal The Counselling Psychologist
Volume 29
Number 3
Pages 413–434
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DOI 10.1177/0011000001293006
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Abstract

An illustrative analysis is offered demonstrating the potential of conversation analysis for psychotherapy research. Extracts are presented from an unresolved problematic theme selected from an unsuccessful eight-session psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy of a female client presenting with a major depressive episode. The authors identify descriptive devices and communicative skills on which the client and therapist draw in the process of problem formulation. They demonstrate the way in which differing versions of the client’s problems were presented and how the client and therapist pursued differing attributional projects. Specifically, the authors examine how internal and external accounts of the client’s underlying problems were accomplished and warranted and how the therapist attempted the transformation of problems. The quality criteria pertaining to conversation analysis are indicated, the implications for therapeutic practice explored, and the relationship between the present findings and previous research discussed.

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