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Interactional positions and the production of identities: negotiating fatherhood in family therapy talk.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20635556     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Participants in a conversation may, even within the same basic role staging create different cooperation settings. To describe these cooperative settings, we employ the concept of interactional position as a basic analytical tool. From our understanding of identity as a conversational achievement, we demonstrate how evolving interactional positions frame the construction of client identities in family therapy meetings. We focus particularly on how constructions of fatherhood identity are negotiated in the meetings. The methodological perspective of our study draws on social psychological discourse analysis, conversation analysis and social constructionism, and the data consists of video recordings of six family therapy meetings dealing with a single case. The analysis demonstrates the large variety of combinations of interactional positions that are possible in family therapy conversation and explicates how strongly the construction of the client's identity depends on the position combinations allowed in a therapy session.
Authors:
Eero Suoninen; Jarl Wahlström
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Communication & medicine     Volume:  6     ISSN:  1612-1783     ISO Abbreviation:  Commun Med     Publication Date:  2009  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-07-16     Completed Date:  2010-08-12     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101201068     Medline TA:  Commun Med     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  199-209     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland. eero.suoninen@uta.fi
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adolescent
Child
Family Relations*
Family Therapy*
Fathers / psychology*
Female
Finland
Humans
Male
Parenting
Psycholinguistics
Psychotherapeutic Processes*
Role
Social Identification*

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