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This is a one-day workshop with invited speakers/experts on different methods for analysing therapy transcripts (e.g. conversation analysis, discourse analysis, narrative analysis, etc). The aim of the workshop is to present different approaches to analysing therapy talk and to translate these methods for non-methodology expert audiences. The workshop is highly relevant for counselling and psychotherapy students and academics as well as for practitioners and trainees working in the field. The workshop will allow participants to really interact with the speakers, and the material they bring. We are hoping for a hands-on, friendly experience that leaves participants with enthusiasm and confidence about using qualitative methods with therapy transcripts.
Convenors: Naomi Moller & Andreas Vossler, The Open Unversity, Faculty of Social Sciences
Confirmed speakers:
Professor Charles Antaki – Co-editor of the key book on conversation analysis of therapy transcripts, the 2008 Cambridge Press ‘Conversation Analysis of Psychotherapy’, Dr. Antaki is a widely published and respected author in the area of conversation analysis. Dr. Antaki will be presenting on what conversation analysis can teach us about therapy.
Dr. Georgia Lepper – Co-editor with Nick Riding of the most authorative current text on transcript-based research methods, ‘Researching the Psychotherapy Process: A Practical Guide to Transcript-Based Methods’ (2006, Palgrave Macmillan), Dr. Lepper will be presenting on her Applied Pragmatics approach to analysis of therapy transcripts.
Associate Professor Victoria Clarke – Author with Virginia Braun of Sage’s 2013 ‘Successful Qualitative Research’ as well as a landmark 2006 paper on Thematic Analysis, Dr. Clarke will be presenting on how to use thematic analysis with therapy transcript data. Presenting with Counselling Psychology doctoral student Rachel Wilcox, they will facilitate participants to think about how to apply thematic analysis to transcripts from a family grief counselling intervention.
Workshop organizers:
Dr. Andreas Vossler and Dr. Naomi Moller have a long-standing interest in research methods for counselling and psychotherapy, as exemplified by their most recent book, ‘The Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Handbook’, Sage, 2014. The current workshop comes out of their strongly held belief that not enough of the research on counselling and psychotherapy actually looks at what happens in sessions.
Sandwich lunch and tea/coffee included
Programme:
09:00 - 09:30
Arrival, refreshments, coffee, tea
09:30 - 10:30
Why are therapy transcripts important for therapy research?
Naomi Moller & Andreas Vossler (both The Open University)
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 - 12:15
What can Conversation Analysis offer psychotherapy?
Professor Charles Antaki, Loughborough University
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:45
Is it psychosomatic? A close look at a clinical challenge using Applied Pragmatics
Dr Georgia Lepper
14:45 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 16:30
Analysing therapy transcripts using Thematic Analysis
Associate Professor Victoria Clarke & Rachel Willcox, UWE Bristol
16:30 – 16:45
Conclusions and next steps
Andreas Vossler & Naomi Moller (both The Open University)
Abstracts:
What can Conversation Analysis offer psychotherapy?
Professor Charles Antaki, Loughborough University
Abstract
Conversation Analysis is the study of how people do things with talk, so it seems a natural ally of psychotherapy. Its aims are different of course - it’s a research method, indifferent to the objectives of the people it studies - but it promises to identify the exact way they achieve them. How does a therapist probe delicate matters? How do they offer interpretations? What counts as a client’s resistance, and how does the therapist deal with it? I’ll give a capsule account of CA as a method, and then illustrate its use in psychotherapy with a set of worked examples.
Charles Antaki is Professor of Language and Social Psychology, and a member of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) at Loughborough University, UK. Among his recent publications is the edited volume Applied Conversation Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Is it psychosomatic? A close look at a clinical challenge using Applied Pragmatics
Dr. Georgia Lepper
Abstract
In this workshop we'll examine a clinical event which occurred over several sessions of a brief, 8 session therapy. Using Applied Pragmatics, we will explore the turn by turn interaction as client and therapist contest meaning around the question, 'Is it psychosomatic?' Can close examination of clinical interaction help us as clinicians to hear better, respond better and resolve clinical problems?
Georgia Lepper is clinician/ researcher who has used Conversation Aanlysis to shed light on clinical interaction in many publications, and in teaching and supervision. Formerly Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy at the University of Kent, currently she supervises clinical doctorate candidates for the University of Exeter.
Analysing therapy transcripts using thematic analysis
Associate Professor Victoria Clarke & Rachel Willcox
Abstract
In this session, we'll introduce the Braun and Clarke approach to thematic analysis, highlighting in particular its flexibility, and demonstrate how it can be used to analyse changes processes in psychotherapy transcripts using the example of a therapeutic intervention for bereaved families.
Victoria Clarke is an Associate Professor at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She is a qualitative and critical psychologist, with research interests in sexuality and gender, principally in relation to family and relationships, and appearance and embodiment, and qualitative methods. She has published three prize winning books, including, mostly recently, Successful Qualitative Research (SQR) (Sage). With her SQR co-author, Virginia Braun, she has also published a landmark paper on thematic analysis - Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology (2006) - which has become the most widely cited resource on thematic analysis. The 'in Psychology' part of the title has largely been disregarded and Braun and Clarke's approach to thematic analysis has become one of the most widely used qualitative analytic approaches in the social and health sciences. She is currently co-editing a book on innovative methods for qualitative data collection with Virginia Braun and Debra Gray (for Cambridge University Press), and plans for a thematic analysis book are underway.
Rachel Willcox is completing a Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her doctoral research explores change processes in a therapeutic intervention for bereaved families using the theoretical lens of attachment theory. Her research is supervised by Victoria Clarke and Naomi Moller.
Registration is now closed.
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