Therapy Talk: Conversation Analysis in Practice

✍ Scribed by Pamela E. Fitzgerald (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Therapy Talk aims to help those who apply 'the talking cure' become better at their jobs by enabling them to understand how their verbal responses may channel the conversation partner into a particular direction, promoting conversation analysis as a useful tool to study and enhance the therapeutic alliance between client and practitioner.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-28
Interaction Issues in Short-Term Psychotherapy....Pages 29-43
Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy....Pages 44-63
A Note on Methodology....Pages 64-78
On Active Listening in Short-Term Psychotherapy....Pages 79-99
On the Use of Formulations in Short-Term Psychotherapy....Pages 100-121
Sequencing in Short-Term Psychotherapy....Pages 122-144
Employee Assistance Programmes: A Management Tool....Pages 145-163
Conclusions and Implications....Pages 164-172
Back Matter....Pages 173-195

✦ Subjects

Clinical Psychology; Human Resource Management; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Office Management; Psychotherapy; Consulting - Supervision - Coaching