Abstract
Studies of actual conversational behaviours used to generate positive change in family therapy are relatively rare. In this study such conversational details were examined as they occurred in a single session of family therapy. With passages identified by family members as helpful, discursive methods of analysis (conversation analysis and critical discourse analysis) were used to examine an actual conversation between a renowned family therapist (Karl Tomm) and a family formerly at a conversational impasse. Conversational practices and sequences in talk used by the therapist and family members to bridge these differences in their ways of relating are discussed.
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Couture, S.J. Transcending a Differend: Studying Therapeutic Processes Conversationally. Contemp Fam Ther 28, 285–302 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-006-9011-1
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