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dc.contributor.authorO'Reilly, Michelle*
dc.contributor.authorKiyimba, Nikki*
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-19T16:00:13Z
dc.date.available2018-03-19T16:00:13Z
dc.date.issued2012-11-13
dc.identifier.citationO'Reilly, M. and Parker, N. (2013). 'You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink': Exploring children's engagement and resistance in family therapy. Contemporary Family Therapy, 35(3), 491-507.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10591-012-9220-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/620988
dc.descriptionThe final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10591-012-9220-8en
dc.description.abstractChildren’s engagement and disengagement, adherence and non-adherence, compliance and non-compliance in healthcare have important implications for services. In family therapy mere attendance to the appointments is no guarantee of engaging in the treatment process and as children are not the main initiators of attendance engaging them through the process can be a complex activity for professionals. Through a conversation analysis of naturally occurring family therapy sessions we explore the main discursive strategies that children employ in this context to passively and actively disengage from the therapeutic process and investigate how the therapists manage and attend to this. We note that children competently remove themselves from therapy through passive resistance, active disengagement, and by expressing their autonomy. Analysis reveals that siblings of the constructed ‘problem’ child are given greater liberty in involvement. We conclude by demonstrating how therapists manage the delicate endeavour of including all family members in the process and how engagement and re-engagement are essential for meeting goals and discuss broader implications for healthcare and other settings where children may disengage.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.urlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10591-012-9220-8en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectchildrenen
dc.subjectengagementen
dc.subjectconversation analysisen
dc.subjectfamily therapyen
dc.title'You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink': Exploring children's engagement and resistance in family therapyen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.eissn1573-3335
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Leicester; Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trusten
dc.identifier.journalContemporary Family Therapyen
dc.internal.reviewer-noteE-mailed Nikki to confirm version 9/3/18en
dc.date.accepted2012-09-07
or.grant.openaccessYesen
rioxxterms.funderunfundeden
rioxxterms.identifier.projectunfundeden
rioxxterms.versionAMen
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2013-11-13
html.description.abstractChildren’s engagement and disengagement, adherence and non-adherence, compliance and non-compliance in healthcare have important implications for services. In family therapy mere attendance to the appointments is no guarantee of engaging in the treatment process and as children are not the main initiators of attendance engaging them through the process can be a complex activity for professionals. Through a conversation analysis of naturally occurring family therapy sessions we explore the main discursive strategies that children employ in this context to passively and actively disengage from the therapeutic process and investigate how the therapists manage and attend to this. We note that children competently remove themselves from therapy through passive resistance, active disengagement, and by expressing their autonomy. Analysis reveals that siblings of the constructed ‘problem’ child are given greater liberty in involvement. We conclude by demonstrating how therapists manage the delicate endeavour of including all family members in the process and how engagement and re-engagement are essential for meeting goals and discuss broader implications for healthcare and other settings where children may disengage.


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