Negotiating behavioural change: Therapists’ proposal turns in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Abstract

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an interna- (3) information-giving. These proposal turns will be examined in relation to the negotiation of behavioural change, and the implications for CBT interactions between therapist and client will be discussed.

Addressing Patients' Psychosocial Concerns Regarding Hearing Aids Within Audiology Appointments for Older Adults

“…Across Lines 1-7, the audiologist diagnoses the patient with a bilateral hearing loss and then, within the same turn, suggests hearing aids to the patient (see K. Ekberg & LeCouteur, 2012, for more detail on the turn construction of this type of recommendation). So, in a similar way to Fragment 1, there is a quick succession from diagnosis to hearing aid recommendation (this was a common practice across the corpus and preceded two thirds of the appointments where concerns about hearing aids were raised by clients).…”

“As it’s our last exchange next time…”. The closure initiation in email counseling

“…Peräkylä et al (2008) published an edited collection of conversation-analytic studies on topics such as formulations (Antaki 2008) or resistance (Bercelli/Rossano/Viaro 2008;Vehviläinen 2008). Other studies have focused on aspects of a specific approach to counseling or therapy (e. g. homework [Beckwith/Circhton 2014] or proposals [Ekberg/Lecouteur 2012] in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), or on a specific psychological problem (e. g. the linguistic construction of suicidal help-seekers [Kupferberg/Gilat 2012] or psy-chotic patients [Wynn/Rossano/Viaro 2009]). While Susan Danby and colleagues reported in 2009 that only a few studies on online counseling had been conducted so far, recent years have seen an increase in research focused on online counseling from a linguistic perspective.…”