Major theme: Evaluation of therapeutic outcome. Logical development of the theme: We
suggest a way for practitioners and researchers to assess if they are on track in conversing …

Applied conversation analytic research seeks to understand the ways in which
conversational practices are modified in order to fulfill institutional aims. Psychotherapy is …

My aim in this chapter is to discuss certain ways in which Conversation Analysis (CA) and
Discourse Analysis (DA) can methodologically contribute to psychotherapy research …

The discipline of clinical psychology has emerged from a largely positivist approach to
understanding human behaviour (Kiyimba, 2015), and applied research for clinical …

This article draws upon an extensive review of narrative, discourse, and conversation
analyses of psychotherapy in order to outline, critically discuss, and evaluate claims made …

The aim of this chapter is to present a systematic overview of some of the research results
presented in this book. An overview like this cannot cover all that was important in the …

We show how the working relationship between therapist and client can be realized,
maintained, and, if necessary, repaired discursively. Therapists come to each session with …

The evolution of both discourse analysis and conversation analysis (henceforth DA and CA,
respectively) has been a progressive movement from their inception as an inductive focus …

Psychotherapeutic conversation is a specific form of institutional talk (see Drew and Heritage
1992, and Heritage and Clayman 2010, for a discussion of the range of differences between …

This article draws on a case study of a narrative therapy session to explore issues related to
relational responsiveness in therapeutic conversations. The central question posed, is “How …