BackgroundInternet-based self-help treatment with minimal therapist contact has been shown to have an effect in treating various conditions. The objective of this study was to explore participants' views of Internet administrated guided self-help treatment for depression.MethodsIn-depth interviews were conducted with 12 strategically selected participants and qualitative methods with components of both thematic analysis and grounded theory were used in the analyses.ResultsThree distinct change processes relating to how participants worked with the treatment material emerged which were categorized as (a) Readers, (b) Strivers, and (c) Doers. These processes dealt with attitudes towards treatment, views on motivational aspects of the treatment, and perceptions of consequences of the treatment.ConclusionsWe conclude that the findings correspond with existing theoretical models of face-to-face psychotherapy within qualitative process research. Persons who take responsibility for the treatment and also attribute success to themselves appear to benefit more. Motivation is a crucial aspect of guided self-help in the treatment of depression.

After lesbian couples have decided to become parents, their family-making journey entails a wide range of encounters with professionals in fertility clinics and/or in maternal and child healthcare services. The article presents the results of an analysis of 96 lesbian mothers’ interview talk about such encounters. In their stories and accounts, the interviewees draw on two separate and contradictory interpretative repertoires, the ‘just great’ repertoire and the ‘heteronormative issues’ repertoire. Throughout the interviews, the ‘just great’ repertoire strongly predominates, while the ‘heteronormative issues’ repertoire is rhetorically minimized. The recurrent accounts of health services as ‘just great’, and the mitigation of problems, are meaningful in relation to a broader discursive context. In a society where different-sex parents are the norm, the credibility of other kinds of parenthood is at stake. The ‘just great’ repertoire has a normalizing function for lesbian mothers, while the ‘heteronormative issues’ repertoire resists normative demands for adaptation.

This article focuses on a psycho-educational programme, DISA, currently practiced in the Swedish schools to prevent girls from developing depressive symptoms. We draw on group interviews with schoolgirls to explore how they describe DISA and how an understanding of the programme is constructed through their arguments. We demonstrate how the girls' version of DISA highlights a contradiction in the intervention that is traceable to the theoretical underpinnings of the programme and the mix of traditions -treatment and prevention -that constitute the intervention. We discuss problematic aspects of DISA and outline implications for policy practice.

The present article discusses how 12 children (five to eight years) in planned lesbian families talk about families, parents and specifically 'daddies' as such and not having a father themselves. Findings from child interviews demonstrate that the children described daddies as 'the same' as mummies, i.e. as having the same functions. This contrasts with previous research showing how children of heterosexuals often describe mothers and fathers as different. The children varied in terms of how they labelled donors. Some children adopted the denomination 'daddy', drawing on a paternity discourse, while others simply referred to him as 'a man'. KeywordsChild interviews, conception, father, lesbian family, sperm donor From infancy, children raised in lesbian-headed families relate to non-heterosexual parents and learn early on to reflect on family life from non-heteronormative points of view (see Goldberg et al., 2011;Schmitt and Gustavson, 2012). In the current article, we present interview data in which 12 children, between five and eight years of age and from two-mother households, talked about families, family life and child conception. Our aim is specifically to explore how these children talked about 'daddies'. The study covers both how the children talked about daddies as such and about not having a father themselves. Daddy-talk has also been scrutinized when it occurs in relation to the own donor conception.