Reflective practices in Open Dialogue meetings: Reporting and inferential ‘My side tellings’

Schriver, Karen Nissen; Buus, Niels; Rossen, Camilla Blach

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.03.007

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“…Therapists may experience the discomfort of conversational silence and feel an inclination to alleviate personal or group anxiety by breaking the silence to suggest ways to ‘fix problems.’ As much as possible, dialogical therapists actively resist invitations to intervene prematurely, and may instead choose to hold the discomfort and open up a reflective space (Schriver, Buus, & Rossen, ). Implicit in the therapist's hesitation is a belief that possible solutions may emerge in the dialogues between participants.…”

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Open Dialogue: Frequently Asked Questions

Ong

Barbara-May

Brown

et al. 2019

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Open Dialogue is an approach to working with people and their families experiencing psychosocial distress. Interest in Open Dialogue in Australia has been growing recently, raising questions about its adaption and implementation to local contexts. This article is an attempt to answer some of the frequently asked questions we have encountered in training and discussions about Open Dialogue. We attempt to provide responses to questions of how Open Dialogue is different to what is done already, how it fits with current approaches, how you know if you are doing it, whether it is passive or just about doing reflections, issues about including the social network, and concerns about the evidence base. This article aims to present a variety of viewpoints in relation to these questions and to hopefully further discussions on how Open Dialogue can be implemented and adapted to Australian health care and social care contexts.

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Section: Faq 1 Don't We Do This Already?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Dialogue: Frequently Asked Questions

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Barbara-May

Brown

et al. 2019

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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“…'It seems he doesn't treat you badly' in Extract 1, line 18). Mental health professionals need strategies that display both caution and authority when relating to patients' experiences or realities, mostly because many of the matters talked about in psychiatric settings may be delicate or touchy (Bergmann, 1992;Schriver et al, 2019).…”

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The use of ‘my side telling’ during history taking in psychiatric consultations

Yao

2021

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Using the method of conversation analysis, this article examines an interactional practice through which psychiatric practitioners exhibit knowledge about their patients’ problems, symptoms, or experiences in psychiatric outpatient consultations. This practice is referred to as ‘my side telling’. The data were from audio recordings of 55 psychiatric outpatient visits to four psychiatrists in China. In the data, the psychiatrists employ ‘my side telling’ within larger sequences of talk where psychiatrists solicit their patients to elaborate on their problems or experiences, treating prior answers of the patients as unsatisfactory. Based on empirical study of the data, it is argued that ‘my side telling’ in psychiatry is not merely used to elicit information. Rather, through facing patients with facts or evidence which the psychiatrists got from other sources, it acquires a confrontative function and may be employed as a tool to test the patients’ sense of reality and willingness to talk about their experiences. Thus, it is shown to work towards assessing patients for possible psychiatric conditions and forming diagnostic hypotheses. I further argue that ‘my side telling’ allows the psychiatrists to achieve a balance between respecting the patients’ rights to report their own experiences and influencing the directions in which the information is reported.

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“…In the recorded open dialogue meetings the interviewing therapist, the client, and the members of the social network sat on chairs in a circle around a table. One or two cotherapists were placed outside the circle and functioned as an external reflecting team (Schriver, Buus & Rossen, 2019).…”

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“…The reflecting team spoke about what they had heard and were touched by during the meeting. The reflecting team both acknowledged and interpreted the participants' descriptions of their experiences (Schriver et al, 2019). In the fourth part of the meeting, usually 5-10 min, the client and network reflected and commented on the contributions from the reflecting team and the session in general.…”

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