Advice in psychotherapy.
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2024-07-10
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This thesis delves into the intricate dynamics of psychotherapeutic communication through the lens of Conversation Analysis. Focusing on the risky linguistic task of advice-giving and how a psychotherapist employs mitigation strategies as a result of this risk. The study aims at understanding which mitigation strategies were used and what they aim to achieve. Through analysis of a psychotherapeutic session through the methodological framework of CA different mitigation strategies were found, namely perspective displays, leading questions, hedges, bushes and shields. Hedges and shields were found to be located in the advice while bushes were more often found in pre-sequences. In general, all mitigation strategies generally aimed at one thing: creating and fostering a collaborative environment between the patient and the psychotherapist. These results can aid psychotherapists in their practice when speaking to clients.
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