In this article, we discuss the role of the therapist in change in couple and family therapy. We
argue that the therapist is a key change ingredient in most successful therapy. We situate …

This paper aims to render the research literature on discourse analysis of psychotherapy
more accessible to researchers and clinicians, and to provide a concise presentation and …

Many of the qualitative research methods developed in the social sciences are well suited to
explore research questions pertinent for the systemic field, and make a good fit with systemic …

Discourse analysis (DA), a qualitative research method, is an umbrella term for a number of
different approaches to the study of language. Potter and Wetherell (1987) note that the term …

The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring, and Learning addresses the psychological
principles upon which coaching and mentoring is based, and integrates them in a universal …

In Open Dialogue the first treatment meeting occurs within 24 hr after contact and includes
the social network of the patient. The aim is to generate dialogue to contruct words for the …

Discourse analysis, as an approach to studying psychological phenomena, developed out of
the 'turn to language'in social psychology in the 1970s and 1980s and the emergence of …

Postmodernist ideas are widely used in family therapy. However, it is argued that these
ideas have their limits in meeting the richness and complexity of human experience and …

We dedicate this article to the memory of Steve de Shazer, who was the University's External
Examiner for the doctoral dissertation on which this article is based. His comments were …

This paper argues that a core skill needed to be an effective therapist is to have developed
an awareness of one's own ontological and epistemological positions in relation to one's …