Open AccessRecursive Frame Analysis: A Practitioner’s Tool for Mapping Therapeutic Conversation
Author(s) -
Hillary Keeney,
Bradford Keeney,
Ronald J. Chenail
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1730
Subject(s) - conversation , vignette , conversation analysis , framing (construction) , frame analysis , qualitative research , frame (networking) , psychology , qualitative analysis , sociology , computer science , epistemology , psychotherapist , social psychology , cognitive reframing , communication , engineering , social science , telecommunications , structural engineering , philosophy
Recursive frame analysis (RFA), both a practical therapeutic tool and an advanced qualitative research method that maps the structure of therapeutic conversation, is introduced with a clinical case vignette. We present and illustrate a means of mapping metaphorical themes that contextualize the performance taking place in the room, recursively enacted to produce a lineal progression from an opening act to a closing act. RFA is offered to therapists, supervisors, teachers, and researchers as an exit from impoverished ways of framing both the choices we have in how to work with clients as well as the ways in which pedagogy is structured and research conducted.