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Co-Therapy and a Dialogical Approach - An inspiration from Scandinavian Countries

HORNOVÁ, Lucie

Basic information

Original name

Co-Therapy and a Dialogical Approach - An inspiration from Scandinavian Countries

Authors

HORNOVÁ, Lucie (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Trondheim, 195 pp. Doctoral Thesis at NTNU, 2020

Publisher

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

50101 Psychology

Country of publisher

Norway

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

Organization unit

Theatre Faculty

ISBN

978-82-326-4499-5

Keywords (in Czech)

Koterapie, dialogismus, dialogická koterapie, praktický výzkum

Keywords in English

co_therapy; dialogism; dialogical_cotherapy; practitioner research

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 18/2/2021 13:00, doc. MgA. Hana Průchová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

This is a practitioner PhD research project discovering through use of co-therapy, therapeutic potential of dialogism. A multi-disciplinary team of four men and four women, each one of them of a different background and different training who form together an outpatient service of clinical psychology and psychotherapy in a remote area of the Czech Republic have focused on transforming their service into a dialogical practice. They choose co-therapy as a context where dialogical aspects of their work can be observed and developed in the best way. Based on ideas of social constructionism they co-designed and then performed together a practitioner research consisting of first reflected co-therapy (two therapists working together with one family and then reflecting on their work) then bringing their reflections into a focus group. The content of the focus group was taped, trans-scripted, analysed and the results of the analysis were presented in the beginning of the following focus group for discussion together with the new reflections. A complex methodology was used for analysing the content of the focus group not just to categorise the utterances as such but also to map and reflect on the dialogical qualities present in the focus groups. In this way, an analytical loop of personal and theoretical reflections being tested in practise and then reflected again was formed and performed until the whole team was happy with the results. All together 6 focus groups were performed within a 1,5 years timespan. This resulted into development of dialogical ethics adopted in the team and definition of characteristics of dialogical co-therapy. These are not experienced only as theoretical concepts but as a performed day-to-day reality with which all the team members identify.
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