Moving Between Dialogic Reflexive Processes In Systemic Family Therapy Training: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study of Trainees’ Experience

Givropoulou, Dimitra; Tseliou, Eleftheria

doi:10.1111/jmft.12237

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“…Other training practices, such as psychoanalysis or systemic therapy, also consider reflective practice to be an essential component of therapist training. They encourage self-knowledge by exploring one’s personal and family history (Givropoulou & Tseliou, 2017; Larchanché, 2010; Schmidt & Adkins, 2012). What is unique about cultural decentering is that it requires the repeated exercise of becoming self-reflective about one’s own cultural attachments and their relation to one’s clinical practice.…”

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Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group

Carrera

Lévesque-Daniel

Moro

et al. 2020

Transcult Psychiatry

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Transcultural psychotherapy is an original therapeutic technique designed to respond to difficulties encountered in psychiatric treatment for migrants. Today, this psychotherapy is formalized and it is in use at numerous sites in France and internationally. An increasing number of professionals are seeking training in this method. We sought to explore the experiences of these trainees, at their entry in the group and during their training. This qualitative study used focus groups to interview trainees participating in a transcultural psychotherapy training group. The thematic analysis generated two domains of experience: the emotional and personal experience within the transcultural group, including the private feelings of the trainee-participants, their initial difficulties, and the changes in these feelings; and their perception of this specific type of care, that is, their perspectives on transcultural psychotherapy and its most original aspects. Based on the narratives of trainees in this program, we conclude that becoming a transcultural psychotherapist involves a process not only of cultural decentering but also of professional decentering. This decentering cannot be learned theoretically: it must be experienced, for a long enough time to become imbued with it and to allow oneself to modify one’s practices. After sufficient time in the group, the trainees succeed in extricating themselves, little by little, from their ethnocentric vision of psychotherapy, and come to tolerate and then integrate new ways of doing and thinking.

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confidence: 99%

Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group

Carrera

Lévesque-Daniel

Moro

et al. 2020

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…Our analysis yielded two main strands. The first one illustrates how trainees connote reflexivity and is reported in a previous article (Givropoulou & Tseliou, 2018). In brief, trainees appear to make sense of reflexivity as a multifaceted process, taking place in the form of a dialogue either with one's self or with others, during or after an event or an action.…”

Section: Reflexivity Training Personal Development and Group Processesmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…Reflexivity is a multidisciplinary term, connoted in different ways across fields like education, anthropology and sociology (see Givropoulou & Tseliou, 2018 for an extensive discussion), or qualitative research (Finlay & Gough, 2003). In brief, reflexivity denotes a process of self-reflection or self-awareness concerning the ways in which one constructs the context of their activity (Schmidt & Adkins, 2012).…”

Section: Reflexivity and Systemic Family Therapy Trainingmentioning

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Developing Reflexivity through Group Processes in Psychotherapy Training: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Systemic Family Therapy Trainees’ Experience

Givropoulou

Tseliou

2020

Family Process

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Constructionist approaches in the field of systemic family therapy prioritize reflexivity to promote personal development within training, often leaning on group processes. Drawing from a qualitative study we conducted to address the lack of related research, we present how systemic family therapy trainees experience reflexivity development through group processes. Ten systemic family therapy trainees participated in semi-structured interviews, transcribed and analyzed with interpretative phenomenological analysis. Analysis presented here reports three superordinate themes: Developing reflexivity through challenges and rewards, A conditional reflexive space within the training group, and Encountering the dynamics of identity via reflexive group processes. Our findings suggest that trainees experience reflexivity development as a complex relational process of personal development, highlighting the training group's critical role, nonetheless depending on certain preconditions. The importance of further exploring group processes' potential for reflexivity development in psychotherapy training is underscored.

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“…In the scarce reviews of qualitative research studies in couple and family therapy (Gehart, Ratliff, & Lyle, ; Tseliou, ), one can get a taste of the existing variety in methodological approaches. More recent qualitative research (e.g., Givropoulou & Tseliou, ; Johnson & Piercy, ; Pylyser, Buysse, & Loeys, ; Sametband & Strong, ) demonstrates a constant evolution in the field. This variability in couple and family therapy qualitative research also reflects the growing diversity in qualitative research methodologies (see Willig, for an overview).…”

Section: Discursive Research Methodologies In Couple and Family Theramentioning

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Discursive Methodologies for Couple and Family Therapy Research: Editorial to Special Section

Tseliou

Borcsa

2018

J Marital Family Therapy

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In this article, we aim to introduce the special JMFT section on discursive research methodologies for couple and family therapy research. These are qualitative research methodologies which resonate with the systemic emphasis on the semantics and the pragmatics of therapy discourse. First, we provide a brief overview of such methodologies and their use in the family therapy field. We then introduce the context and the content of the special section, where four approaches, including conversation analysis, discursive psychology type of discourse analysis, poststructurally informed discourse analysis (subject positioning analysis), and semantic analysis, are introduced by means of analyzed extracts from a Tom Andersen consultation session with a couple in distress and their therapist. We conclude with implications for the field. For Tom and Michael.

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Moving Between Dialogic Reflexive Processes In Systemic Family Therapy Training: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study of Trainees’ Experience

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group

Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group

Developing Reflexivity through Group Processes in Psychotherapy Training: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Systemic Family Therapy Trainees’ Experience

Discursive Methodologies for Couple and Family Therapy Research: Editorial to Special Section

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