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Recognising children's involvement in child and family therapy sessions: A microanalysis of audiovisual recordings of actual practice.
- Source :
- British Journal of Social Work; Sep2022, Vol. 52 Issue 6, p3480-3500, 21p, 1 Diagram
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Children's right to involvement in practices that address their well-being is frequently highlighted, yet how children exercise involvement in face-to-face encounters has remained fairly unknown. To fulfil our aim of identifying, describing and defining children's involvement, we conducted an inductive microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue on audiovisual recordings of naturally occurring therapy sessions with children attending social services departments and mental health clinics. The resulting operationalisation generated six dimensions of children's involvement: participatory, directive, positional, emotional, agentive and narrative. By operationalising how children exercise involvement, we render the abstract concept more amenable to fine-grained analysis, systematic evaluation and criticism. The domains also offer tools to recognise children's involvement in practice. Lastly, the article discusses practical implications and presents a compass for orientation. Since many conversational elements in institutional talks are generic, the dimensions are potentially transferable to other settings, including school counselling, child protection investigation and clinical psychology. A high inter-analyst agreement, together with similar findings on utterance functions and interactional dominance in other types of dialogues, also enhance the dimensions' transferability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- TREATMENT of behavior disorders in children
FAMILY psychotherapy
PROFESSIONAL practice
WELL-being
PATIENT participation
CONVERSATION
AUDIOVISUAL materials
MENTAL health
RESEARCH funding
PLAY therapy
MEDICAL practice
SOCIAL services
DATA analysis software
PARENT-child relationships
VIDEO recording
PSYCHOTHERAPY
CHILDREN
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00453102
- Volume :
- 52
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159236780
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab248