Dominant Story, Power, and Positioning

Päivinen, Helena; Holma, Juha

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“…For example, in a study from couple therapy, power was associated with a partner's ability to construct a dominant story congruent with discourses that relationships require emotional closeness and talk between partners. By adhering to this dominant discourse, a partner could ascribe certain appropriate rights and duties to her partner and consequently place her partner in a contrary and accountable counter‐position if he was not meeting these expectations (Päivinen & Holma, 2016). Another study described dominant stories as invoking a moral responsibility for the partner (Wahlström, 2016).…”

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Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research

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Collaborative‐dialogic approaches to family therapy advise therapists to take a position of client‐as‐expert and promote an equality of multiple perspectives. This has led to debates about how to conceptualize power in dialogical therapies with scholars theorizing and researching power as social and negotiated through interaction. We aimed to understand power in dialogical therapy through reviewing discursive research on therapeutic conversations. We performed a systematic search of bibliographical databases PsycINFO, PubMed, and CINAHL. We reviewed the findings from 18 studies utilizing discursive analyses of collaborative‐dialogical therapy sessions and examined their findings in relation to power within interactions. We found a strong focus on the practices of the therapist rather than on those of the client. The therapist was presented as a catalyst of dialogue using minimal and active responses to promote dialogical conversations. Therapists also utilized power in response to broader institutional and social demands that may not be consistent with some interpretations of dialogical therapy. We consider practice implications where the exercise of power to direct a session facilitates dialogical interactions.

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“…Discourses that reflect the interests of powerful groups tend to dominate (i.e., silence or marginalize) other discourses. Clinical process may be considered a set of actions in which clients and therapists implicitly or explicitly position themselves in relation to dominant cultural discourse, which may include resistance (Päivinen & Holma, 2016).…”

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“…The notion of discourse, which refers to collective ways of thinking and talking that give meaning to interaction, enables therapists and researchers to link micro-processes at the relationship level to the wider sociocultural context (Advi, 2016;Krolokke & Sorensen, 2006). SERT therapists recognize that societal discourses embedded in client stories are not neutral and are related to power (P€ aivinen & Holma, 2016). Discourses that reflect the interests of powerful groups tend to dominate (i. e., silence or marginalize) other discourses.…”

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“…We approached analysis with sensitivity to how larger societal discourses show up and implicitly structure the micro-moments of clinical processes (Advi, 2016;P€ aivinen & Holma, 2016;Strong & Smoliak, 2018)-for example, recognizing enactment of the idea that women are responsible for relationships. Staying consistent with our SERT theoretical lens, we were interested in how therapists responded to what we recognized as indicators of sociocultural discourse and how these discourses were enacted or resisted in clinical interactions between partners and between therapists and partners, especially as they relate to the flow of power and the Circle of Care.…”

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“…Proc., Vol. 60, December, 2021 KNUDSON-MARTIN, KIM, GIBBS, & HARMON / 1153 relation to dominant cultural discourse, which may include resistance (P€ aivinen & Holma, 2016).…”

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Sociocultural Attunement to Vulnerability in Couple Therapy: Fulcrum for Changing Power Processes in Heterosexual Relationships

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Increasingly, couple therapists are called to promote equity in their clinical practice, yet little research illuminates the intricacy of doing this work. The purpose of this study was to clarify the clinical processes involved when therapists facilitate a more equitable balance of power in couple relationships while utilizing a sociocontextual frame of reference. It is part of larger research explicating Socio‐Emotional Relationship Therapy (SERT), an approach that places equity and social justice at the core. The sample included 72 SERT sessions with nine heterosoexual couples in which there was an observable power difference between partners. Using Charmaz’s (2014, Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis, Sage) grounded theory coding, theoretical sampling, and interpretive methods, we examined therapist/client responses over multiple sessions to explain shifts in the couples’ power balance. Analysis identified sociocultural attunement to vulnerability as the core clinical process and detailed five sociocultural expressions: socialized vulnerability, socialized invulnerability, reactive (in)vulnerability, reactive vulnerability, and shared vulnerability. Shifts in power involved each of three therapist stances: (a) identification of the societal power context of vulnerability, (b) therapist leadership and responsive persistence, and (c) facilitating mutual sociocultural attunement to vulnerability to promote shared relational responsibility and influence. Implications address the connections between power and vulnerability in couples work and what therapists can do to more effectively facilitate relational equity.

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Paarsein um welchen Preis? Genderorientierte Verantwortlichkeiten und ihre Auswirkungen auf Adressierungen in Erstgesprächen systemischer Paarberatung

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2024

Edition Professions- Und Professionalisierungsforschung

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Dominant Story, Power, and Positioning

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research

Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research

Sociocultural Attunement to Vulnerability in Couple Therapy: Fulcrum for Changing Power Processes in Heterosexual Relationships

Paarsein um welchen Preis? Genderorientierte Verantwortlichkeiten und ihre Auswirkungen auf Adressierungen in Erstgesprächen systemischer Paarberatung

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