Online Forums as Definitional Ceremonies

Zamani, Navid J.; Smith, Graham; Monk, Gerald

doi:10.1521/jsyt.2013.32.4.1

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“…Outsider witness practices can take several forms in narrative therapy, including group work (Nasim, 2007), online forums (Zamani, Smith, & Monk, 2013), and letter circulation (White & Epston, 1990). A common form of outsider witness practice is working with teams using a one-way mirror.…”

Section: Outsider Witness Group In the Context Of Live Supervisionmentioning

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Outsider Witness Groups as a Means of Professional Growth in Family Therapy Training: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Nadan

2019

Family Process

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This exploratory qualitative study examines the experiences and meanings associated with family therapy trainees' participation in the narrative practice of Outsider Witness Groups (OWG). At the Barcai Institute in Tel Aviv, we incorporate OWGs into our live clinical supervision courses. In some sessions, we offer the families undergoing therapy the opportunity to listen to the reflections of the group of trainees regarding what they witnessed during the session. Twenty-nine family therapy trainees participated in the study in five focus group interviews. Analysis of the interviews yielded four core themes regarding the trainees' experiences: (i) Exploring the stance of the therapist; (ii) The art of listening; (iii) Reflection on hierarchy and boundary setting; and (iv) Negotiating self-disclosure. The findings indicate that family therapy trainees stand to benefit significantly in their professional journey, development, and growth from integrating OWG practices into their training. OWG fosters the development of critical reflectivity in trainees, including the deconstruction of common and taken-for-granted assumptions. It also fosters practices related to family therapy, and perhaps also to therapy in general. The findings also suggest that taking part in OWGs during training may contribute to family therapy trainees' development of critical reflectivity as a means of introducing a more critical and political approach to therapy and developing their own preferred stories as therapists.

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Section: Outsider Witness Group In the Context Of Live Supervisionmentioning

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Outsider Witness Groups as a Means of Professional Growth in Family Therapy Training: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Nadan

2019

Family Process

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The Social Construction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Social Media Technologies

Frohlich

2016

Health Communication

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Many people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), sometimes lacking adequate face-to-face sources of support, turn to online communities to meet others with the disease. These online communities are places of support and education, but through the use of social media communication technologies, people with IBD are redefining what it means to live with the disease. This ethnographic study followed 14 online communities to understand how people with IBD used social media technologies to construct their own meanings about living with the disease. The following redefinitions were observed: the refiguring of the body is beautiful; inflammatory bowel disease is serious and deadly; inflammatory bowel disease is humorous; the disease makes one stronger; and the disease is invisible, but needs to be made visible. This study will help health communication scholars understand how technology is appropriated by patients, and will help practitioners understand how their patients conceptualize their disease.

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Online Forums as Definitional Ceremonies

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

Outsider Witness Groups as a Means of Professional Growth in Family Therapy Training: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

Outsider Witness Groups as a Means of Professional Growth in Family Therapy Training: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

The Social Construction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Social Media Technologies

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