Couples’ Experiences of Hope When Participating in the Reflecting Team Process: A Case Study

Egeli, Natasha Ann; Brar, Novjyot; Larsen, Denise J.; Yohani, Sophie

doi:10.1007/s10591-013-9280-4

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“…RTs are used in clinical work with numerous populations such as patients presenting with somatic complaints (Griffith et al, 1992), children (Lax, 1989), parental illness (Dale & Altschuler, 1999), and couples (Egeli, Brar, Larsen, & Yohani, 2014) to name a few. RTs have been used for live supervision (Cohen et al, 1998), as an adjunct to group supervision (Prest, Darden, & Keller, 1990;Reichelt & Skjerve, 2013), for training family therapists (Young et al, 1997(Young et al, , 1989, to create cohesion in multidisciplinary teams (Garven, 2011), and in the community (Swim, Priest, & Mikawa, 2013).…”

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“…Relational hope is a little researched concept in the field of couple therapy research. While identified as a common factor in individual therapy (Lambert, ) and explored in individual psychotherapy (e.g., Snyder, , ), far less research has attended to hope in couple therapy (Egeli et al., ). One example is Ward and Wampler's (2010) research about therapists’ perspectives on hope in the context of couple therapy.…”

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‘Somebody Watching You’: Impact of Reflecting Teams on Hope in Couple Relationships

Allan

Klarenbeek‐McKenna²,

Day

2019

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Reflecting teams (RTs) represent both an epistemological stance and a therapeutic technique. Most commonly associated with narrative and systemic approaches to therapy, RTs offer an outsider perspective that can bring hope and alternative narratives and perspectives for therapists and clients to explore. Relational hope is a little researched concept in the field of couple therapy research. This study explores the experience of RTs in couple relationships and the aspects of the experience that couples describe as connected to a sense of hope for their relationship. The study also considers whether difference in attachment style shows any relationship with hope in couple relationships before and after the clients’ session with a reflecting team. Couples completed questionnaires about their attachment style, demographics, and relational hope and were given the option to complete an interview about their experience with the reflecting team within 1 month of their therapy session. Our findings suggest that RTs contribute positively to hope in couple relationships particularly for clients who present with an anxious attachment style. This direction for research is important because there is very little research about hope in couple relationships despite its importance (Merolla, 2014; Snyder, 2002) and there is no research about what aspects of a reflecting team contribute to hope in couple relationships. Analysis of interviews indicates a number of features of the reflecting team feedback that were valued by clients.

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Section: Reflecting Teamsmentioning

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Section: Reflecting Teamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Somebody Watching You’: Impact of Reflecting Teams on Hope in Couple Relationships

Allan

Klarenbeek‐McKenna²,

Day

2019

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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“…For teams that are more influenced by Tom Andersen's reflecting team model, it is impossible to know the extent to which the distinction that was so important to him has been carried out in the many settings in which the model is now used. Reflecting teams are used in the context of clinical work, of course, and with numerous populations, such as with couples (Egeli, Brar, Larsen, & Yohani, 2014), children (Lax, 1989), parental illness (Dale & Altschuler, 1999), and patients presenting with somatic complaints (Griffith et al, 1992), to name a few. Reflecting teams are used for training (Davis, 2012;Young et al, 1989); supervision (Par e, 1999;Reichelt & Skjerve, 2013;Reynolds, 2010;Roberts, 1997;Selicoff, 2006); and to create cohesion in multidisciplinary teams (Garven, 2011).…”

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The Art of Reflection: Turning the Strange into the Familiar

Weingarten

2015

Family Process

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There are a great many useful articles on the dynamics and pragmatics of reflecting teams but few articles address what constitutes a good or inept reflection and why. I provide a conceptual model for thinking about what a good reflection does, distinguishing it from a nice reflection. With some further refinements in place, I then illustrate how reflections can be part of any relationship, not just clinical ones. We have opportunities to make them and to recognize when others make them to us. By using examples from my personal life-as a grandmother, daughter, radio listener, cancer survivor, and client-I attempt to ease the personal/professional binary, a project of mine for the last 35 years. In the second part of the article, I address how writing can serve reflection. Although best offered at the moment one is called for, it is never too late for a reflection. Writing allows people to offer reflections after the fact to those who have shared their stories. Sometimes, it is to ourselves we offer those reflections, when the reflector has long since dropped the thread of obligation or interest. I provide an example of working with iconic imagery to unpack meaning so that reflection can eventually take place, allowing integration to proceed, facilitating the strange becoming the familiar.

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“…IPR research began to take hold in psychotherapy with the seminal work of Elliott (Elliott, 1986;Elliott & Shapiro, 1988) and the method has continued to grow and be modified for use in various contexts (e.g. Egeli, Brar, Larsen, & Yohani, 2013;Levitt & Piazza-Bonin, 2011;O'Hara & Schofield, 2008;Timulak & McElvaney, 2013). IPR was selected for its ability to elicit there-and-then experiences from participants, inviting them to discuss overt as well as unspoken thoughts and feelings as they remembered them to have occurred during the session (Kagan, 1984).…”

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“…Research indicates that perspective shifts on self and circumstance are associated with client experiences of hope in individual (Larsen & Stege, 2012), couples (Egeli et al, 2013) and peer counselling (Harris & Larsen, 2007). Fostering perspective shifts with clients is considered an important means of opening client awareness to new possibilities in difficult circumstances.…”

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Hope in a strengths-based group activity for individuals with chronic pain

Larsen

King

Stege

et al. 2015

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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While hope has been described as the ability to imagine a future in which one wishes to participate, individuals with chronic pain can have difficulty maintaining hope due to the pervasive impact of pain on multiple facets of their lives. This research examines client experiences of hope during a hope and strengths activity offered as part of a group treatment plan for individuals experiencing chronic pain. Entitled Being Hopeful in the Face of Chronic Pain, the group was developed in order to focus on hope and generative emotional experiences, experiences often lacking for individuals with chronic pain. The group activity being studied specifically addressed participants' current strengths and strengths they hope-to-have-more-of. The study employed basic qualitative inquiry and utilized interpersonal process recall individual interviews to stimulate participant recall. Twelve participants (spanning three separate group offerings) individually discussed their personal experiences as they unfolded during a specific hope and strengths-focused activity. Participants described experiences during the group activity that fostered personal hope via perspective shifts, communion, comparison and connection with other group members. Findings are discussed in the context of current literature on hope, chronic pain, positive psychology and group interventions.

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Couples’ Experiences of Hope When Participating in the Reflecting Team Process: A Case Study

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

‘Somebody Watching You’: Impact of Reflecting Teams on Hope in Couple Relationships

‘Somebody Watching You’: Impact of Reflecting Teams on Hope in Couple Relationships

The Art of Reflection: Turning the Strange into the Familiar

Hope in a strengths-based group activity for individuals with chronic pain

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