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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"discursive psychology"”.
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Discursive Psychology: Meta-theoretical applications for clinical Psychology
… how Rom Harre's meta-theory for (social) psychology (Discursive Psychology) might be applied to the typical concerns of mainstream Clinical Psychology, namely, DSM IV diagnosis; clinical formulation; treatment intervention; and therapeutic evaluation. Discursive ' Psychology is posited as …
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The discursive construction of hegemonic and pariah femininities in the spoken accounts of a group of Japanese women
This thesis investigates the discursive construction of culturally idealised (‘hegemonic’) and alternative (‘pariah’) femininities in the spoken accounts of a group of Japanese women. Semi-structured individual and group interviews were conducted with a sample of women and the data was analysed …
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Losing ground : locational formulations in argumentation over New Travellers
This thesis is an exercise in discursive psychology. The body of discourse analysed concerns the defence of rural space against New Travellers. In contrast to previous sociological and human geographical work in this area, instead of newspaper articles and Parliamentary discourse, participants' …
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Talking of transcendence: A discursive exploration into how people make sense of their extraordinary experiences
… principles informed by Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology, but also by feminist and transpersonal research. These principles identify the important and relevant aspects from the influential methodologies and where possible, address perceived limitations, incompatibilities and …
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"Russian Propaganda and Subjectivity Positions Following the 2022 Escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War"
… the development of the dissertation is critical discursive psychology (CDP), applied in combination with encoding and decoding positions. Interpretative repertoires, intertextuality and assumptions, post-truth and fake news, and lived ideology are the key concepts that further inform the …
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Identity-portfolio-management: a data-led research study of organisational entrant engagement in processes of identity-creation and identity management
… was principally analysed utilising a discursive psychology analytic approach. The principle research findings were that the participants managed their identity-structures (identity-portfolios) through two interrelated processes. They managed their identity-portfolios through both a …
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Critical thinking and Empathy in the Helping Professions
… research, examining students’ understandings and discursive uses of critical thinking, empathy was occasionally implicated in a relationship with critical thinking. This research project attempted to further examine students’ understandings of critical thinking and its implicated relationship with …
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"You know, what is overspending" : working with compulsive buying : a critical discursive account
… CB. The transcripts were analysed using critical discursive psychology, a branch of Discourse Analysis. Findings Four main discourses were elicited from the data: ‘it’s self medicating’, ‘how should I work with this?’, ‘we must all shop but not too much’ and ‘is it a problem?’ The interpretative …
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An exploration of Educational Psychologists' constructions of sexuality and the implications for practice
… of sexuality and the implications for practice. Discursive psychology (Potter and Wetherell 1987) was used to analyse semi-structured interview data from seven EPs. Multiple and context dependent constructions of sexuality emerged from the study. The research revealed that participants oriented …
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An analysis of the discourses and discursive devices used to represent learning disability in the stories told in the classroom to students by learning disability nurse teachers
… analysis more heavily influenced by the discursive psychology of Potter and Wetherell (2004). Both forms of discourse analysis assisted the investigation of the many ways or modes in which learning disability was constructed by nurse teachers.
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“What country are you from originally?” A conversation analysis of black clients' and black therapists' talk during therapeutic encounters
… Analysis, Membership Category Analysis and Discursive Psychology to analyse the data. The analysis highlighted four distinct findings: a) racial and cultural identities are drawn upon in talk both implicitly and explicitly, b) therapists make self-disclosures specifically to do with race and …
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Therapeutic relationships with people experiencing psychosis within an acute mental health care setting: a critical discursive evaluation
… considered a pivotal underpinning of counselling psychology and is a key determinant of positive therapeutic outcomes in various forms of therapy. Health care professionals (HCPs) utilise the therapeutic relationship within acute mental health settings (AMHS); however, little is known about how …
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Signifying creative engagement : what is the influence of professional identity on the values that people ascribe to creative partnership projects in education?
… and social representations theory, alongside discursive psychology and readings of identity from cultural studies, were mobilized as consecutive lens on the analytic outcomes. These theories were found to be apposite and a deeper comprehension of creative partnership dynamics was arrived at. …
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Talking about rape: a discursive study of convicted adult rapists' accounts of rape
… In doing so, this research has utilised critical discursive psychology to analyse the ways in which ‘rape myths’ and knowledge of sexual consent, coercion and refusal is incorporated into participants’ offence accounts. Findings suggest that offenders employ a variety of rape myths when accounting …
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The return of the Serbian other: Interpretative repertoires of nationalism and identity politics in online news discourses on Serbia's integration in the European union
… the theoretical and methodological framework of discursive psychology, this research identified interpretative repertoires activated and constructed in dialogic interaction through news reports and readers' online commentaries on the visa liberalization process between 2009 and 2011. The analysis …
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Rhetoric and victimhood in Northern Ireland
… carried out into the subject, most research in psychology considers victimhood to be a cognitive or perhaps a clinical phenomenon. This thesis proposes that victimhood is fundamentally a rhetorical phenomenon by which the possessors of the status can use it to argue about what should be done for …
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Blame it on her genes : on performativity, politics, and the consumption of prevention
… citizenship. Combining three key concepts from Discursive Psychology, this thesis addresses the effects of performativity by scrutinising how morality is actually indexed by market actors in everyday speech. By treating text and talk as a form of action, the analytical framework focuses on how …
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A discourse analysis of how Educational Psychologists talk about Trauma-informed Practice
… and transcribed. Data was analysed using discursive psychology, a form of discourse analysis. Findings suggest EPs’ co-constructed a unique version of TiP by making Extreme Case Formulations which helped perform peripheral social actions (allying and avoiding commitment) and core social …
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Talking in images: clients’ and therapists’ constructions of metaphor and its uses in therapy
… its use in therapy. I draw upon critical social psychology debates on notions such as 'self, subjectivity and materiality. Sixteen participants took part in this study. Eight of those were practising therapists, five were clients and three were both therapists in training as well as clients. The …
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Immigration Discourses in the U.S. and in Japan
… use of various interpretative repertoires (i.e., discursive themes and specific rhetorical moves therein) and positioning of self and Others. Interpretative repertoires and discursive positioning of self and Others are major analytical frameworks of discursive psychology that were developed by …
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