Exploring group process

Lepper, Georgia; Mergenthaler, Erhard

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“…Group settings enable interaction not only between client and counsellor but also between clients, which presumably has an important impact on how the counselling discussions unfold. There is little knowledge of this aspect, as most previous research on counselling interaction has focused on dyadic settings (although see Lepper and Mergenthaler, 2005;Pino, 2016;Wiggins, 2009 …”

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Self-reflective talk in group counselling

2017

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Reflective processing is a joint social action that develops in interaction. Using conversation analysis and discursive psychology, this article focuses on self-reflective turns of talk in group counselling for adults at risk of Type 2 diabetes. We show how reflective processing unfolds in patterns of interaction, wherein group members take an observing, evaluating or interpreting position towards their own actions and experiences. Self-reflective talk is neither exclusively dependent on counsellors' actions nor limited to the niches the counselling programme structure offers. Self-reflective talk is one method of generating joint reflective processing. Such talk makes a topic available for discussion by connecting details of counselling with individuals' experiences and enabling sharing. Self-reflective talk thus serves as a way for group members to participate in constructing a lifestyle problem, to invite or provide sharing of experiences and to display their orientation to the institutional task at hand. KeywordsCognition, conversation analysis, counselling, discursive psychology, ethnomethodology, group counselling, group discussion, group interaction, health behaviour change, health counselling, interaction process, reflection, self-reflection iii Autobiographical note Aija Logren (M.Soc.Sc) is a social psychologist and doctoral student at the University of Tampere.Her research focuses on group interaction in counselling situations and on socially shared cognition.Johanna Ruusuvuori (Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Tampere) has vast experience in analysing interaction in various contexts of health care. She has published widely on practices equivalent or close to counselling, empathy and participation in health care consultations, and qualitative methods.Jaana Laitinen (Adjunct Professor in Nutrition and in Public Health, Director) specializes in intervention studies aiming to promote healthy lifestyles and work ability. Additionally, she has studied the development of unhealthy behaviours in an epidemiological prospective study of Northern Finland 1966 and 1986 cohort studies.

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“…Após revisão da literatura do TCM, exemplifica-se sua utilização na avaliação de mudança em processos psicoterapêuticos individuais (Lepper & Mergenthaler, 2005) e em grupo (Fontao & Mergenthaler, 2002). A aplicação do software admitiu a identificação de momentos-chave nos processos psicoterapêuticos, estando associado, por exemplo, a situações de insight (Mergenthaler & Bucci, 1999) ou silêncio durante as sessões psicoterapêuticas (Levitt, Butler, & Hill, 2005).…”

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Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM): instrumento de avaliação do processo psicoterapêutico

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ResumoO objetivo deste trabalho foi apresentar a versão brasileira do Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM) a partir da análise de uma sessão de um processo de psicoterapia psicanalítica. O TCM é um método de análise de textos por computador que identifica os momentos-chave no discurso de paciente, psicoterapeuta, ou de ambos, em interação. As análises são feitas com o auxílio de um software (Cycles Model), que dispõe de listas de palavras de tom emocional e de abstrações, permitindo a classificação do texto em duas categorias: conteúdo emocional e cognitivo das verbalizações na sessão. Buscou-se ilustrar uma possibilidade de utilização do TCM a partir de uma sessão de psicoterapia. A análise exploratória dos conteúdos verbalizados pela dupla, paciente e psicoterapeuta, a partir dos ciclos terapêuticos demonstrou que esse instrumento contribui na identificação de momentos clinicamente significativos do discurso do paciente em sessões individuais. Sendo assim, o TCM pode ser mais uma ferramenta para compreender o processo terapêutico e, com isso, auxiliar o psicoterapeuta em sua prática. Palavras-chave: psicoterapia; avaliação de processo; pesquisa empírica. Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM): instrument of evalution of psychotherapeutic process AbstractThe objective of this study was to present the Brazilian version of Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM) from the analysis of a psychoanalytic psychotherapeutical process. TCM is a method of computer analysis of texts by identifying key-moments in the speech of the patient, therapist, or both in interaction. The analysis is performed with the software (Cycles Model), which provides word lists of emotional tone and abstractions, allowing classification of text into two categories: emotional and cognitive content of utterances in the session. We have tried to illustrate a possibility of TCM's use from a psychotherapy session. Exploratory analysis of the contents verbalized by the double patient and psychotherapist demonstrated that this instrument helps in identifying clinically significant moments in speech of the patient in individual sessions. Thus, the TCM can be a tool in comprehending psychotherapeutic processes, helping psychotherapist in practice. Keyworks: psychotherapy; review process; empirical research. Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM): instrumento de evaluación del proceso psicoterapéutico ResumenEl objetivo de este trabajo fue presentar la versión brasileña del Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM) partiendo del análisis de una sesión de un proceso de psicoterapia psicoanalítica. El TCM es un método computarizado de análisis de textos que identifica los momentos clave en el discurso del paciente, del psicoterapeuta o de la interacción entre ambos. El proceso de análisis se realiza con el auxilio de un software (Cycles Model), que dispone de listas de palabras de tono emocional y de abstracciones, permitiendo la clasificación del texto en dos categorías: contenido emocional y contenido cognitivo de las verbalizaciones durante la sesión. Se buscó la posibilidad de utilización del...

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“…Although the pacing has been slow there is a steadily growing number of CA or CA-inspired studies on psychotherapy, counseling and related areas. Issues that have been studied are for example problem formulations, (Davis, 1986;Buttny, 1990Buttny, ,1996Madill et al, 2001), humor (Buttny, 2001), empathy (Wynn & Wynn, 2006), psychoanalytic interpretations (Vehviläinen, 2003;Peräkylä, 2004), diagnostic formulations (Antaki, Barnes, & Leudar, 2005b), cohesion in group therapy (Lepper & Mergenthaler, 2005), self-disclosure (Antaki, Barnes, & Leudar, 2005a;Leudar, Antaki, & Barnes, 2006), therapeutic collaboration (Lepper & Mergenthaler, 2007); resistance in psychoanalytic interaction (Vehviläinen, 2008), therapeutic change (Voutilainen, Peräkylä, & Ruusuvuori, (2011), and present moment work (Kondratyuk & Peräkylä, 2011). Some of these studies (e.g.…”

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“…Others take their point of departure in specific psychotherapeutic theories and methods (e.g. Peräkylä, 2004;Vehviläinen, 2008;Kondratyuk & Peräkylä, 2011), or in psychotherapy process research (Lepper & Mergenthaler, 2005 and investigate central aspects of the therapy process and the therapeutic relationship. Regardless of their point of origin and their research interests, these studies have all added to our knowledge about conversational structures and practices in psychotherapy in important ways.…”

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Therapy talk and talk about therapy : Client-identified important events in psychotherapy

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2014

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Capturing and studying the moments in psychotherapy that clients find most important can help us understand more about how psychotherapy works, what the curative ingredients are, and by what processes they are mediated. Qualitative research in this area has, so far, mainly focused on describing, and categorizing clients' experiences of important factors and events. The methods employed to analyse the data have been rather limited in variation and are usually based on a realist epistemology, according to which data are basically treated as reflections of the clients' actual experiences. This entails a risk of overlooking and obscuring other aspects of therapy and the therapy process that are equally important to explore, for example the microprocesses of interaction within important events, or how clients' accounts of their experiences are shaped and limited by the context in which they are produced. The overall aim of this licentiate thesis was to explore client-identified important events in psychotherapy with a focus on studying therapy talk and talk about therapy from a social constructionist point of view, which would allow a closer exploration of the understudied areas mentioned above.In Study I, Conversation Analysis was used to explore the interaction taking place between seven client-therapist dyads in 16 client-identified important events collected from their third sessions. The analysis identified that 12 of the events contained clients' expressions of disagreement. Three different ways that the therapists handled the disagreement were discerned: The first, and most common, way was to orient to the client's cues of disagreement by inviting the client to elaborate on his or her point of view and to establish a shared understanding acceptable to both participants. The second way was to orient to the client's disagreement cues but define the therapist's own point view as more relevant than the client's, and the third way was a single case in which the therapist did not in any way orient to the client's disagreement cues.In Study II, two qualitative methods based on different epistemologies were used to analyse the same set of eight clients' accounts of 18 important events. The aim was to first identify what types of events clients describe as important, and then explore how their accounts of these events were contextually shaped and organized, and the consequences of this. The first analysis, a content analysis, yielded descriptions of five different types of events, which were similar to the ones found in previous research on important events. The second analysis, a discourse analysis, demonstrated how clients' accounts were not only influenced by the participants' ability to accurately remember and report their experience, but also by what was sayable within the context of the research interview. In conclusion, the two studies demonstrate how qualitative methods based on a socialconstructive perspective can contribute to our understanding of clientidentified important events by highlighting and ...

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Exploring group process

Cited by 38 publications

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Self-reflective talk in group counselling

Self-reflective talk in group counselling

Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM): instrumento de avaliação do processo psicoterapêutico

Therapy talk and talk about therapy : Client-identified important events in psychotherapy

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