Peter Muntigl, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Cathy Van Gorp, July De Wilde
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Abstract
For this paper, we use the methods of conversation analysis to examine video-recorded sessions of interpreter-mediated psychotherapy (IMP) involving a female systemic therapist, a male interpreter, and an Arabic-speaking male refugee. We analyze how all conversational participants shape and negotiate the therapeutic interaction—as essential building blocks of the dialogical therapeutic relationship—and what verbal and nonverbal communicative means they use in the process. We present examples of three different conversational practices in IMP, oriented to doing systemic work: Interpreter renderings of systemic interventions; Maintaining affiliation with the client in the absence of verbal engagement; and the interpreter co-driving the therapeutic project forward. The identification of systemic practices that build working alliance in this mediated transcultural setting is crucial for understanding how IMP sessions may work productively for systemic trauma therapy. Implications for systemic practice and training are discussed.
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The Journal of Marital & Family Therapy (JMFT) is published quarterly by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is one of the best known and most influential family therapy journals in the world. JMFT is a peer-reviewed journal that advances the professional understanding of marital and family functioning and the most effective psychotherapeutic treatment of couple and family distress. Toward that end, the Journal publishes articles on research, theory, clinical practice, and training in marital and family therapy.