Overview
- Highlights a diverse range of qualitative methods
- Discusses mixed method research in family therapy
- Provides input for theory development and clinical practice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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In this powerful volume, six qualitative methods are used to analyze a couple therapy with a troubled young couple, illustrating the intricate processes and sub-processes of therapy through client interactions with their therapists and with each other. Increasingly popular for revealing the nuances and complexity of human interactions, qualitative approaches focus on process and discursive methods which can be particularly rewarding in multi-client settings. Through the examples that make up the text, practitioners and researchers become better acquainted with the power of qualitative perspectives and are encouraged to examine their own views on therapy as they consider these and other concepts:
The development of dialogical space in a couple therapy session.
Introducing novelties into therapeutic dialogue: the importance of minor shifts of the therapist.
Therapists’ responses for enhancing change through dialogue: dialogical investigationsof change.
Fostering dialogue: exploring the therapists’ discursive contributions
in a couple therapy.Dominant story, power, and positioning.
Constructing the moral order of a relationship in couples therapy.
Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy: Discursive Qualitative Methods ably demonstrates the balance between therapeutic art and science for family and couples therapists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals in research and practice.
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About the editors
Peter Rober Ph.D., Professor in Clinical Psychology at Leuven University (KU Leuven), Belgium. He is a family therapist, supervisor and family therapy trainer. His research focus is on family therapy and family communication (e.g. family secrecy, selective disclosure, dialogical space, …). He has written four books in Dutch and has published several articles in international journals on family therapy and qualitative research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy
Book Subtitle: Discursive Qualitative Methods
Editors: Maria Borcsa, Peter Rober
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23306-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23305-5Published: 22 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79468-6Published: 30 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23306-2Published: 15 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 176
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 143 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Family, Psychotherapy