The process of enabling change: a study of therapist interventions in family therapy |
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| Authors: | Charlotte Burck,Stephen Frosh,Lisa Strickland-Clark,& Kevin Morgan |
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| Affiliation: | Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA, UK.,;Tavistock Clinic, London, and Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.,;South Thames Regional Health Authority, UK.,;Department of Psychology, Brunel University, UK. |
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| Abstract: | We describe the application of discursive analysis to the task of researching family therapy process. Through the analysis of a central theme in two family therapy treatments, we found that individual family members move to using a wider range of discourses on the central theme by the end of therapy. Using the example of one family's therapy sessions, we examine how the therapist contributes to the new meanings and views that emerge, and present our analysis of the therapists' interventions in relation to the 'production' of these alternative meanings. It is argued that discourse analysis can fruitfully be applied to family therapy process research and could contribute to theoretical concepts of change and therapeutic competence. |
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