Communicating With Families : Taking The Language of Mental Health From Research to Practice / by Michelle O'Reilly, Nikki Kiyimba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Reilly, Michelle, author.

Kiyimba, Nikki, author.

Series:

Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2662-9135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Counseling.

Clinical psychology.

Systemic therapy (Family therapy).

Interpersonal communication.

Psycholinguistics.

Counseling Psychology.

Clinical Psychology.

Systems or Family Therapy.

Communication Psychology.

Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics.

Local Subjects:

Psychotherapy.

Counseling Psychology.

Clinical Psychology.

Systems or Family Therapy.

Communication Psychology.

Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Biography/History:

Michelle O’Reilly is Associate Professor of Communication in Mental Health at the University of Leicester and a Research Consultant for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, UK. Michelle is also a Chartered Psychologist in Health. Nikki is a chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist with experience working with patients with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. She runs Mātai Rongo, a trauma responsive training, supervision and psychology centre in New Zealand.

Summary:

This textbook highlights the particular complexities of working systemically with couples and families with children. It is designed to be student and practitioner oriented by drawing on real world examples of therapeutic encounters in mental health settings to illustrate how theory can inform practice. Good communication is the cornerstone of good clinical practice and is foundational for building therapeutic alliance. Although therapists and counsellors are often highly skilled in their therapeutic modalities, this book offers additional practical suggestions about how families engage in social actions and positioning themselves and others in their talk. The book also takes wider micro and macro ecological systems within which systemic psychotherapists and counsellors work into account and consider the ways that these larger social influences are experienced within institutional discourses. This unique book will be a valuable resource across a broad spectrum of professions andresearchers, including counsellors, psychotherapists, family therapists, psychiatrists, nurses, play therapists, speech and language therapists, and mental health social workers. Michelle O’Reilly is Associate Professor of Communication in Mental Health at the University of Leicester and a Research Consultant for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, UK. Michelle is also a Chartered Psychologist in Health. Nikki is a chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist with experience working with patients with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. She runs Mātai Rongo, a trauma responsive training, supervision and psychology centre in New Zealand.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Contents

About the Authors

Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

Part I: Theoretical Context

1: Systems Within Systems: Families in Society

Introduction

Language and Communication

Stigma

Labelling

Pathology

Social Meta-Narratives

Ecological Systems Theory

Family Systems Theory

The Construction of Reality Within Family Systems

Research Data

About Our Projects

Analytic Approaches

Introductory Examples of Discursive Analysis of Family Systems

Author Positionality

Final Thoughts

References

2: Family Dynamics and Constructs

What Constitutes the Family?

The Social Construction of the Family

Sociology of the Child

Vulnerability and Resilience Factors in the Family

Disruption and Resilience

Vulnerability Factors

Working with Families in Mental Health

3: Forming and Maintaining Good Relationships

The Therapeutic Relationship

Establishing and Maintaining Alignment

Language and Active Listening

Alignment Through Professional 'Gossiping'

Alignment Through Extreme Case Formulation

Rupture

Inattention

Disruption

Resistance

Discontinuity

Pre-empting

Performing

Picking up

Taking Responsibility for Rupture Management

Interruptions

Power and Asymmetry

Members Interrupting: Children

Members Interrupting: Practitioners

Part II: Engaging Children

4: Designing Questions with Children

The Value of Questions and the Importance of Question Design

Different Ways of Using Questions

Closed Questions

Wh-Prefaced Questions

Declarative Questions

Tag Questions

Either/Or Questions

Summarising Thoughts.

'Why Are You Here?' Questions

Using Why Questions

The Miracle Question

You Said Prefaced Questions

Circular Questions

5: Using Creative Activities with Children

Subjective Units of Distress

Stress Bucket

Using Symbols and Archetypes

A Shift to Digital

Incorporating Creative Approaches Online

6: Children's Competence

Situated Interactional Competence

The Knowledge Continuum

Institutionally Situated Linguistic Competence

Competence to Report One's Own Motivations, Feelings and Thoughts

Knowledge of the Feelings and Thoughts of Others

Negotiated Competency Expectations

Part III: Attending to the Different Needs of Family Members

7: Managing Age-Appropriate Conversations with Children Present

Appropriate Topics of Conversation

Talking About the Child, with the Child Present

Negotiating Time with Parents and Children Separately

The Value of Separation

Techniques for Separation

8: Avoiding Shame and Blame

Identity Construction and the Role of the Good Parent

Parent Blaming

Managing Responsibility and Blame

Virtue Signalling and Identifying as a Good Parent

9: How to Talk About Risk

How to Have a Conversation About Risk

Harm to Self

Incremental

Normalising

Harm to Others

Harm from Others

Risk of Harm to Self, Others and from Others Online

Safeguarding

Child Protection

Vulnerable Adults

Confidentiality Breach

Responsibility and Boundaries

10: Using Naturally Occurring Data for Professional Development

Introduction.

Using Recordings of Naturally Occurring Activities

Pragmatics of Recording Conversations with Families

Using Online Modalities

In the Clinic Versus on the Go

Asking the Family to Record Events in the Home Environment

Using Naturally Occurring Text-Based Documents

Clinical Notes

Referral Documents

Progress and Outcome Reports

Using Naturally Occurring Data for Supervision

Using Reflective Interventionist Conversation Analysis (RICA)

Appendix: Jefferson Transcription - Overview of Symbols Used

Index.

ISBN:

9783031304187

3031304187