Maciejewska2022
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Maciejewska2022 |
| Author(s) | Eliza Maciejewska |
| Title | Non-directive play therapy with autistic adolescents: a qualitative study of therapists’ interactional practices |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, autism spectrum disorder, conversation analysis, non-directive play therapies |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Text & Talk |
| Volume | 42 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 369-390 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0063 |
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Abstract
This case study identifies and examines interactional practices of non-directive play therapists during their therapeutic sessions with autistic adolescents. The study involved two therapists and two adolescents (siblings) on the autism spectrum. The video-recorded sessions took place at participants’ home and were conducted in Polish. Employing insights and tools from discourse-analytic approaches, in particular conversation analysis (CA), the findings show how clients and therapists are both involved in co-constructing therapeutic interactions by orienting to each other’s utterances. CA is presented in this article as a useful tool for recognizing and describing the therapists’ interactional contributions and their local functions. The therapeutic practices identified in the analysis (talk-in-practice) – e.g. mirroring, meaning expansion, recast and scaffolding – are further juxtaposed with theories concerning interactional practices in non-directive therapies (talk-in-theory) in order to provide a more detailed picture of these practices as well as complete them. The findings from this study expand the current state of knowledge of non-directive play therapies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and carry practical implications for specialists involved in ASD treatment.
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