The System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction.

Simon, Anita; Agazarian, Yvonne M.

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“…Clinical nurses and nurses in leadership positions bear responsibility and accountability for good patient care and patient advocacy. 11,12 Yet, as an extensive body of literature reveals, this responsibility can be very difficult to fulfill in contemporary healthcare environments, 6 leading to feelings of moral distress, distancing from patient problems and even attrition from the profession. 13 Ultimately, lack of confidence in ethical decision-making and ability to “do the right thing” affects patient care.…”

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Developing a moral compass: Themes from the Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses’ final essays

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Background: The Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses was offered selectively to nurses affiliated with two academic medical centers to increase confidence in ethical decision-making. Research Question/Aim: To discover how effective the participants perceived the program and if their goals of participation had been met. Research design: A total of 65 end-of-course essays (from three cohorts) were analyzed using modified directed content analysis. In-depth and recursive readings of the essays by faculty were guided by six questions that had been posed to graduates. Ethical considerations: Institutional review board approval was granted for the duration of the program and its reporting period. Confidentiality was maintained via the use of codes for all evaluations including the essays and potentially identifying content redacted. Findings: An umbrella theme emerged: participants had developed ethical knowledge and skills that provided a “moral compass to navigate the many gray areas of decision-making that confront them in daily practice.” Six major themes corresponding to questions posed to the participants included the ability to advocate for good patient care; to support and empower colleagues, patients, and families; they experienced personal and professional transformation; they valued the multimodal nature of the program; and were using their new knowledge and skills in practice. However, they also recognized that their development as moral agents was an ongoing process. Discussion: Findings support that enhancing nurse confidence in their moral agency with a multimodal educational approach that includes mentored practice in ethical decision-making, enhancing communication skills and role-play can mitigate moral distress. A majority found the program personally and professionally transformative. However, they recognized that ongoing ethics discussion involvement and supportive environments would be important in their continued development of ethical agency. Conclusion: Multimodal ethics education programs have potential to be transformative and enhance nurse confidence in their ethical decision-making.

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“…The SAVI (Simon & Agazarian, 1967) is an observer-rated system that defines and codes nine classes of verbal behavior by theoretical criteria dealing with approaching or avoiding communication patterns. It was developed to focus on communication as an output of a person rather than a characteristic; define a group in terms of potential communication resources as a whole group, subgroups, and as individuals; and monitor the probability that content is transferred from speaker to listener.…”

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Rating group therapist interventions: The validation of the Group Psychotherapy Intervention Rating Scale.

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Porter³

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Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…SAVI is a verbal observation system that codes verbal behavior into categories, a matrix of nine classes of behavior that discriminates between the verbal behaviors that facilitate the transfer of information and those that introduce noise into the communication system. In developing the SAVI system, Simon and Agazarian (1967) built on the work of Shannon and Weaver (1964), who demonstrated an inverse relationship between noise (defined as ambiguity, contradiction, or redundancy) and the probability of information being transferred. Shannon and Weaver determined noisy communications to be entropic and clear information to be negentropic .…”

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“…This article continues Agazarian's work and discusses four models that build the bridges from the theoretical understanding of phases of system development to being able to research the assumption that systems do indeed develop through predictable phases. The models of Lewin's (1951) life space and his force field of driving and restraining forces, Agazarian's (1997) systems-centered hierarchy of defense modification, Simon and Agazarian's (1967, 2000) system for analyzing verbal interaction (SAVI) and the statistically derived normal curve are all used in conceptualizing the research pathways (Agazarian & Gantt, 2000).…”

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Phases of group development: Systems-centered hypotheses and their implications for research and practice.

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2003

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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This article conceptualizes the phases of group development using Y. M. Agazarian's theory of living human systems (1997) and K. Lewin's field theory (1951). Linking these theories to operational models builds a bridge to research by making it possible to generate specific hypotheses. The basic systems-centered hypothesis can then be tested empirically: that weakening the restraining forces at the boundary between each subphase of system development releases the driving forces inherent in all living human systems, so that the system moves toward the next phase of development-in the direction of the inherent system goals of survival, development, and transformation. The discussion focuses on the implications for group leaders in organizations and therapeutic practice.

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The System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction.

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Developing a moral compass: Themes from the Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses’ final essays

Developing a moral compass: Themes from the Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses’ final essays

Rating group therapist interventions: The validation of the Group Psychotherapy Intervention Rating Scale.

Phases of group development: Systems-centered hypotheses and their implications for research and practice.

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