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Therapists’ Responses for Enhancing Change Through Dialogue: Dialogical Investigations of Change

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The point of view on research represented here is based on a dialogical framework. Our emphasis is on understanding the contribution of the therapists to the process of change. We conceptualize therapeutic conversation as a dialogical activity. In using the research method The Dialogical Investigation of Happenings of Change (DIHC) the focus is on how therapists participate and answer from a specific position of “responsive responsibility.” In this chapter our aim is twofold: (1) to present a method for conducting a dialogical analysis of couple sessions and (2) to track detailed sequences of events of change. To make sense of the details of this process, we use Bakhtinian concepts including,” “voice,” “addressee,” and “positioning” which are all facets of the larger prism of dialogue. In the first phase of investigation it is (1) defined the topical episodes and thereafter within each of them, (2) explored the series of responses, and (3) the process of narration and the language area. In the second phase (4) the microanalysis is conducted in the specific episodes of change.