dc.contributor.author | Päivinen, Helena | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-01T12:51:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-01T12:51:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-951-39-6855-7 | |
dc.identifier.other | oai:jykdok.linneanet.fi:1643858 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/52126 | |
dc.description.abstract | This research examined gendered positioning in therapeutic conversations,
especially in treatment of intimate partner violence (IPV). A feminist-informed
reading combined with a discursive psychological approach was applied in
three studies on positioning in therapeutic conversations. This reading focused
on gendered positioning, gendered power and cultural discourses. Thus, the
aim of this research was to examine how gender is constructed in therapeutic
conversations that deal with couple relationship issues, and how the power
distribution this entails is addressed in these conversations. The data consisted
of videotaped and transcribed couple therapy sessions and group treatment
sessions for men who have been violent in their intimate relationship.
Language-based analyses drawing on discourse analysis, discursive psychology
and a narrative approach were conducted. Study I focused on gendered
positioning of the female therapist in an IPV treatment program. Study II
analyzed the construction of dominant stories in couple therapy and focused on
the mutual positioning and distribution of power in these dominant stories.
Study III looked at blaming micro narratives in couple therapy for IPV and
participants’ responses, particularly to identity blaming. The findings of this
research foreground the gendered basis of intimate relationships and how
couple distress is linked to the distribution of power manifested in the
gendered positioning of the partners. The discursive analysis showed how the
participants in the therapy session, including the therapists draw on gendered
cultural discourses when positioning each another. Thus, it is argued that the
therapist needs skill in discursive deconstruction to be able not only to address
the client’s situation as an individual experience but also to locate it in the
wider social and cultural context. Attention to positioning is one such clinical
tool of potential value in therapeutic conversations. | |
dc.format.extent | 1 verkkoaineisto (63 sivua, 54 sivua useina numerointijaksoina) | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | University of Jyväskylä | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Jyväskylä studies in education, psychology and social research | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.subject.other | positioning | |
dc.subject.other | gender | |
dc.subject.other | power | |
dc.subject.other | discourse | |
dc.subject.other | narrative | |
dc.subject.other | couple therapy | |
dc.subject.other | group treatment | |
dc.subject.other | intimate partner violence | |
dc.title | Gendered positioning : addressing gendered power and cultural discourses in therapeutic conversations | |
dc.type | Diss. | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:ISBN:978-951-39-6855-7 | |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
dc.type.ontasot | Väitöskirja | fi |
dc.type.ontasot | Doctoral dissertation | en |
dc.contributor.tiedekunta | Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta | fi |
dc.contributor.yliopisto | University of Jyväskylä | en |
dc.contributor.yliopisto | Jyväskylän yliopisto | fi |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Psykologia | fi |
dc.subject.method | Kvalitatiivinen tutkimus | |
dc.subject.method | Diskurssianalyysi | |
dc.relation.issn | 0075-4625 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 569 | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | |
dc.subject.yso | sukupuoli | |
dc.subject.yso | sukupuolittuminen | |
dc.subject.yso | psykoterapia | |
dc.subject.yso | pariterapia | |
dc.subject.yso | ryhmäterapia | |
dc.subject.yso | parisuhdeväkivalta | |
dc.rights.url | https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ | |