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Goldberg RB, Sude ME, Bijoux-Leist J. Recommendations for Self of the Therapist Training: a Modified Delphi Study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMIC THERAPY 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/2692398x.2023.2178250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
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- La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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van Dieren A, Clavero C. Open Dialogue: A case study on the influence of sharing or withholding reflections during a network meeting. Front Psychol 2022; 13:1028757. [DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1028757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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In Open Dialogue, sharing of reflections by professionals constitutes an important contribution to promoting a polyphonic dialogue between participants. In the inner dialogue, past and future influence the present moment. In this study, we explore the influence of sharing or withholding reflections by professionals on the interplay between inner and outer dialogue. A case study was used with a multi-perspective methodology, which combined video recordings of a network meeting and interviews by using video-stimulated recall with the clients separately, and social workers together afterward. We found that the sharing of reflections by professionals stimulates the inner dialogue and creates an opening for sharing these in the outer dialogue. In addition, we observed that when reflections are withheld, the client's inner dialogue still continues, but their inner dialogue was not shared in the outer dialogue.
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Systemischer Kompetenzerwerb durch das Transkribieren und Interpretieren psychotherapeutischer Sitzungen. PSYCHOTHERAPIE FORUM 2022. [PMCID: PMC9007051 DOI: 10.1007/s00729-022-00195-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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ZusammenfassungStudierende transkribierten Psychotherapiesitzungen an der Ambulanz der ÖAS. Schlüsselszenen wurden in Interpretationsgruppen und mit der Projektleitung analysiert. Didaktische Effekte zeigen sich in der spezifischen Medialität der Textanalyse und dadurch vielseitigen Konstrukten zur therapeutischen Performanz, oder als Erwerb einer „Fehlerkultur“ und im Erkennen „besonderer Momente“ der therapeutischen Beziehung, v. a. im Vergleich der Kommunikation in Dyaden bzw. in Mehrpersonensystemen.
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Labaree RV, Scimeca R. Confronting the “I Don’t Know”: A Philosophical Consideration of Applying Abductive Reasoning to Library Practice. LIBRARY QUARTERLY 2021. [DOI: 10.1086/711636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Rober P. Addressing the Person of the Therapist in Supervision: The Therapist's Inner Conversation Method. FAMILY PROCESS 2017; 56:487-500. [PMID: 27157200 DOI: 10.1111/famp.12220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In this study a method of retrospective case supervision is presented aimed at helping the supervisee to become a better self-supervisor. The method pays special attention to the therapist's self-reflection and has the therapist's inner conversation as a central concept. The starting point of the method is an assignment in which the supervisee reflects on a case using a tape-assisted recall procedure. The method helps trainees to develop experiential expertise to become more flexible and effective therapists. A case example of one training group of novice family therapists illustrates the use of the method.
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- Peter Rober
- Context, UPC K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Neurosciences, Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Callaghan JEM, Gambo Y, Fellin LC. Hearing the silences: Adult Nigerian women’s accounts of ‘early marriages’. FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY 2015. [DOI: 10.1177/0959353515590691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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‘Early marriage’ is a relatively common but under-researched global phenomenon, associated with poor physical and mental health and educational and occupational outcomes, particularly for young girls. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with six Nigerian women from Sokoto state, who were married between the ages of 8 and 15. The interviews explored young women’s experiences of the transition to marriage, being married, pregnancy and their understanding of the marital and parental role. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, we explore women’s constrained articulations of their experiences of early marriage, as they are constituted within a social context where the identity of ‘woman’ is bound up in values and practices around marriage and motherhood. We explore the complexity of ‘hearing’ women’s experiences when their identities are bound up in culturally overdetermined ideas of femininity that function explicitly to silence and constrain the spaces in which women can speak.
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- Federal Civil Service Commission, Ministry of Education, Nigeria
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Lidbom PA, Bøe TD, Kristoffersen K, Ulland D, Seikkula J. How Participants’ Inner Dialogues Contribute to Significant and Meaningful Moments in Network Therapy with Adolescents. CONTEMPORARY FAMILY THERAPY 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10591-015-9331-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Sutherland O, Fine M, Ashbourne L. Core competencies in social constructionist supervision? JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY 2013; 39:373-387. [PMID: 25059303 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2012.00318.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Family therapy is moving increasingly toward evidence-based practice and competency-based training. This article explores what might seem to be an unlikely link between social constructionist supervision, which is based on dialogic and fluid processes of meaning-making, and the increasing reliance on discrete core competencies in the education and training of family therapists. We propose an alternate approach to competencies for supervision with therapists in training that, among other things, invites accountability and provides evaluative props. The approach we propose is based on a set of orientations that we hope reflect the dialogic and contextual nature of social constructionist practice and supervision. These orientations consist of reflexivity and attention to power, fostering polyphony and generativity, collaborative stance, and focus on client resourcefulness. Ideas and questions for supervisors and therapists in training to address the orientations are articulated.
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- Olga Sutherland
- Couple and Family Therapy, University of GuelphThe Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityCouple and Family Therapy, University of Guelph
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Hooghe A, Neimeyer RA, Rober P. The complexity of couple communication in bereavement: an illustrative case study. DEATH STUDIES 2011; 35:905-924. [PMID: 24501858 DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2011.553335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Sharing grief experiences, or "storying"grief can be a key resource in adapting to loss, one that can contribute to stronger bonds and relational intimacy within the family. In this article, the authors conceptualize communication between grieving family members in terms of 3 "D" processes, emphasizing the extent to which such communication is dialectic, dialogic, and dynamic in nature. They illustrate the complexity of sharing about a mutual loss, focused on these 3 features, by referring to a case study of a couple coping with the death of a child in the context of a newly formed family. Rather than unilaterally advocating the promotion of open communication, the authors suggest that therapists working with bereaved families first discuss the complexities of communication with the family members, specifically those concerning talking and keeping silent, and explore the different meanings associated with sharing grief experiences with each other.
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- An Hooghe
- Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Rober P. The interacting-reflecting training exercise: addressing the therapist's inner conversation in family therapy training. JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY 2010; 36:158-170. [PMID: 20433593 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2010.00192.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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In recent years several authors have made a beginning in describing therapeutic conversations from a dialogical perspective. Training and supervision, however, have not yet been addressed from a dialogical perspective. In this article, an experiential training exercise is described that is focused on the basic dialogical skills of the trainee: respectful inquiry and constructive reflecting. Rather than teaching and instructing, this training exercise is aimed at staging a dialogue. The trainees are invited to take part in this dialogue, as they are encouraged to experiment with new positions and new ways of encountering others, and as their different voices tell of their experiences, of the things they have learned, and of the new perspectives that have opened up for them. Leaning on ideas about the therapist's inner conversation (Rober, 1999, 2005b) and stressing the importance of polyphony, dialogism, and tolerance for uncertainty, the training exercise described in this article is consistent with a dialogical and postmodernist frame, as described by Seikkula and Olson (2003).
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- Peter Rober
- Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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Rober P, Seltzer M. Avoiding colonizer positions in the therapy room: some ideas about the challenges of dealing with the dialectic of misery and resources in families. FAMILY PROCESS 2010; 49:123-137. [PMID: 20377639 DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01312.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Some authors have argued that certain acts of family therapists-despite their best intentions-may represent a form of colonizing the family. When acting as a colonizer, a therapist is understood as becoming overly responsible for the family and focusing too strongly on change. In so doing, the therapist disrespects the family's pace, and neglects their own resources for change. This paper aims to highlight the need for therapists to be hypersensitive both to the resources of families entering therapy as well as to the impact of prevailing ideologies on their own positioning in the session. The kind of sensitivity advocated here is dialectical in the sense that every family is understood as having potentials promoting dynamism, happiness, and well-being as well as potentials contributing to stagnation, unhappiness, and misery. In this article, using illustrations from clinical practice, we present some ideas for resisting the tendency by the therapist to assume a colonizing position as a professional solver of problems for families. Our main aim here is to redirect the therapist toward connecting with the family's suffering, as well as with the resource repertoire it has developed for navigating and negotiating its way through life.
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Laitila A. The Expertise Question Revisited: Horizontal and Vertical Expertise. CONTEMPORARY FAMILY THERAPY 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s10591-009-9098-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Rober P, Elliott R, Buysse A, Loots G, De Corte K. Positioning in the therapist's inner conversation: a dialogical model based on a grounded theory analysis of therapist reflections. JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY 2008; 34:406-421. [PMID: 18717927 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00080.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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In recent years, a dialogical perspective has emerged in the family therapy field in which the therapist's inner conversation is conceptualized as a dialogical self. In this study, we analyze the data of a grounded theory study of therapist reflections and we portray the therapist's self as a dynamic multiplicity of inner positions embodied as voices, having dialogical relationships in terms of questions and answers or agreement and disagreement. We propose a descriptive model of the therapist's inner conversation with four positions. In this model, each of the four positions represents a concern of the therapist: attending to the client's process, processing the client's story, focusing on the therapist's own experience, and managing the therapeutic process. Detailed analyses of vignettes of therapist reflections illustrate the model, and implications of this model for training and supervision are considered.
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Rober P, Elliott R, Buysse A, Loots G, De Corte K. What's on the therapist's mind? A grounded theory analysis of family therapist reflections during individual therapy sessions. Psychother Res 2008; 18:48-57. [DOI: 10.1080/10503300701324183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Rober P. The therapist's self in dialogical family therapy: some ideas about not-knowing and the therapist's inner conversation. FAMILY PROCESS 2005; 44:477-95. [PMID: 16433290 DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00073.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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In this article, the focus is on the therapist's self, which will be in line with Bakhtin's thinking, viewed as a dialogical self. First, the dialogical view of the self is situated in the context of psychology's traditional focus on the individual self. Then, leaning on Bakhtin and Volosinov, the self is described as a dialogue of multiple inner voices. Some of the implications of this concept for family therapy practice are examined, focusing especially on the therapist's participation in the therapeutic process and on the therapist's inner conversation. The author argues that not-knowing does not only refer to the therapist's receptivity and respect but also implies that the therapist is aware of his or her experience and reflects on how his or her inner conversation might inform and enrich the therapeutic conversation. Finally, these ideas are illustrated with a brief clinical vignette.
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Rober P. Family therapy as a dialogue of living persons: a perspective inspired by Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and Shotter. JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY 2005; 31:385-97. [PMID: 16294687 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01578.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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There are not a lot of conceptual tools that can help a family therapy teacher to talk and teach about the importance of the therapeutic relationship in family therapy practice. The idea that family therapy can be conceived as a dialogue might offer a fresh and promising perspective. Mainly inspired by the work of Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and Shotter, the author considers if the concept of dialogue can help us to talk about something that is there all the time in our family therapeutic practices, although sometimes unnoticed, and that is hard to talk about because we lack the necessary conceptual tools. When we choose to conceptualize family therapy as dialogue, the focus of the therapist is not primarily on data collection, information processing or problem analysis. The therapist is not primarily concerned with knowing, or with not-knowing. Instead, the focus is on the idea that first and foremost therapy is a meeting of living persons, searching to find ways to share life together for a while. Clinical vignettes that feature children's drawings in family therapy are used as illustrations.
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- Peter Rober
- Department of Relationship and Family Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.
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Sinclair SL, Monk G. Moving beyond the blame game: toward a discursive approach to negotiating conflict within couple relationships. JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY 2004; 30:335-347. [PMID: 15293651 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2004.tb01244.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The concept of discourse is an important tool in negotiating conflict and facilitating conversations within therapy. This article offers a useful framework for negotiating conflict in a couple relationship by highlighting the manner in which individual's expectations are mutually emergent from particular discursive positions. Specific discursive practices and approaches that make more visible the cultural production of conflicts are presented via a case illustration. These practices provide more freedom to couples in relationships to explore conflicts with less totalizing descriptions of the other as blameworthy. In addition, a discursive analysis of conflict invites therapists to be more intentional, reflexive, and socially responsible in their work.
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- Stacey L Sinclair
- Department of Counseling and School Psychology, San Diego State University, California 92182-1179, USA.
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