Exploring Conversational Spaces of Reflection, Generativity, and Commitment in Family Therapy
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2015-08-21
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This dissertation explores how family therapists and client family members co-create conversational spaces of reflection, generativity, and commitment. Using a discourse-oriented ethnographic approach I show how therapists and family members recognized, negotiated, and maintained these conversational spaces while accounting for the contextual influences affecting the spaces, and how they facilitated therapeutic change. I conclude the dissertation by discussing the results in light of the extant literature and by specifying the study’s limitations and implications for therapeutic practice and future research.
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French, J. (2015). Exploring Conversational Spaces of Reflection, Generativity, and Commitment in Family Therapy (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26081