Universität Wien

160064 PS Additional course in this subject area (2013S)

Therapeutic Communication

Continuous assessment of course work

Details

Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 24.04. 14:00 - 17:15 Seminarraum 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 25.04. 09:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 25.04. 15:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 7 Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
  • Friday 26.04. 14:00 - 18:00 Hörsaal 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 05.06. 14:00 - 16:45 Seminarraum 4 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 06.06. 09:00 - 11:30 Hörsaal 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 06.06. 14:15 - 18:00 Seminarraum 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 07.06. 14:00 - 17:00 Hörsaal 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Therapy has significant social and linguistic relevance. Statistics from many countries estimate that, for any given year, more than 10% of the population will seek help from mental-health professionals. This form of help or treatment is most commonly delivered through the medium of conversation and, for this reason, therapy is often referred to as the "talking cure".
This course will explore links between conversation analysis and clinically-oriented conceptualizations of therapeutic processes. A main focus of the seminars will be to carefully explore therapist-client interactions by paying close attention to the way that they use language to achieve certain aims. Consideration will also be given to the therapist’s own theory-driven views of what is happening in the therapy session and how that compares and contrasts with the therapist’s actual talk. An examination of talk-in-therapy can thus provide new perspectives on how therapy actually unfolds, how therapeutically relevant activities are accomplished and even how certain conversational sequences do not have successful outcomes.
A broad array of therapy approaches will be considered in this course: family, couples, client-centred, emotion-focussed, gestalt, etc. But some attention will also be given to neighbouring professions, especially those in which mental-health disclosures may occur; psychiatric consultations; general practice consultations; psychological assessment; support- oriented help lines and counselling.
Some of the main topics that will be covered include:
The role of empathy in creating relational bonds;
Client resistance: how it is managed and how it may block therapeutic progress;
Non-verbal resources and their functions: nodding, gestures, facial expressions;
Storytelling: How clients convey an attitudinal stance and how therapists affiliate with stances;
Therapist practices: questioning, formulating, noticing, interpreting;
Knowledge and epistemology: Do clients own their experience? Are therapists experts?
Identifying therapeutic change in interaction

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

This proseminar provides a ‘hands-on’ approach to examining therapeutic communication. This means that, in each class, a certain percentage of time will be devoted to analyzing actual transcripts and video-recordings of therapy. The aims of this course are:
to provide a general overview of different approaches to therapy and to show that therapeutic communication may be realized in other helping professions;
to provide students with the requisite skills to analyze therapeutic communication using conversation analytic methods;
to impart knowledge on how to transcribe relevant audio and video segments of therapeutic interaction;
to enable students to identify clinically relevant therapeutic episodes;
to enable students in making relevant links between psychotherapeutic constructs and actual therapeutic practices

Examination topics

Power point Präsentation, Data analysis

Reading list

Peräkylä, A., Antaki, C., Vehviläinen, S., & Leudar, I. (Eds.) (2008). Conversation analysis and psychotherapy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Association in the course directory

Master angewandte Linguistik: MA2-M1
Code Diplomstudium: 223, 332, 424, 503, 517, 524, 617, 620, 721, 910

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