A Theistic View of Therapeutic Change.

Based on a corpus of 70 tape-recorded therapy sessions (client-centered therapy, psychodynamic therapy), this paper presents analyses of therapists’ interventions that have the potential to trigger change processes. Using a conversation analytic approach, we identify utterances that re-formulate the patient’s experience from a different perspective. In a second step, we draw on concepts from cognitive and pragmatic linguistics, mainly “frame” and “category”, to analyze the conceptual side of these rewordings. We show that, besides processes of general abstraction, the conceptualization of the patient’s experience from a societal perspective is a crucial part of the rewordings. The verbal re-framing creates a potential for accessing stocks of societal knowledge that would not have been accessible based on the patient’s initial, individualistic and often erratic presentation of events. By changing the wording an experience is referred to, the therapist thus creates links to established collective knowledge about experiences of this category. Once such links to collective knowledge have been created, it then becomes possible to understand differently how the experience in question came to pass, which features it is characterized by and how it can be dealt with in a way that is collectively known to be helpful.

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Therapeutic change processes link and clarify targets and outcomes

World Psychiatry ◽

10.1002/wps.20664 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 287-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefan G. Hofmann ◽

Steven C. Hayes

Keyword(s):

Therapeutic Change ◽

Change Processes

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Guiding the process of therapeutic change

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/0005-7916(89)90036-0 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 270

Author(s):

Ira Daniel Turkat

Keyword(s):

Therapeutic Change

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Repertory Grid Technique as a Group Psychotherapy Research Instrument

Group Analysis ◽

10.1177/0533316492254007 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 449-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

David A. Winter

Keyword(s):

Group Therapy ◽

Group Psychotherapy ◽

Group Process ◽

Psychotherapy Research ◽

Repertory Grid ◽

Therapeutic Change ◽

Therapy Outcome ◽

Repertory Grid Technique ◽

Grid Technique ◽

S Application

This article provides a brief description of repertory grid technique and the measures which can be derived from it which may be of value to the investigator of group therapy. It reviews the technique `s application in this area of research, with particular reference to studies of group therapy outcome, studies of the prediction of therapeutic change and studies of the group process.

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