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GIVING ADVICE ON ADVICE‐GIVING: A CONVERSATION ANALYSIS OF KARL TOMM's PRACTICE
Author(s) -
Couture Shari J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2006.tb01610.x
Subject(s) - advice (programming) , conversation , dialogical self , conversation analysis , session (web analytics) , psychology , psychotherapist , set (abstract data type) , family therapy , medical education , social psychology , medicine , computer science , communication , world wide web , programming language
In this article we challenge a common definition of therapeutic advice as a linear, one‐way accomplishment, enacted by therapists toward clients. We also offer a novel conception of advice as a dialogical “performance, ” to which both therapists and clients contribute. We discuss the results of a conversation analysis of a family therapy session by Karl Tomm, showing sequential practices employed by a family therapist and a family as they jointly work out common ground to set the stage for the therapist's eventual offering of advice. We discuss the results of this study in light of the literature on advice provision in various contexts.