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‘She needs a smack in the gob’: negotiating what is appropriate talk in front of children in family therapy
O'Reilly, Michelle Parker, Nicola
O'Reilly, Michelle
Parker, Nicola
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2012-06-11
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Abstract
Tackling the day-to-day challenges of family therapy can prove difficult
for professionals. A particular issue arising in family therapy is the notion
of what is appropriate for children. Families report events from their
social world, out-there to the therapy in-here. There are occasions where
the content is ‘adult’ in nature and this has to be managed in front of the
children. On some occasions family members use derogatory or negative
descriptions of their children while their children are present. Drawing
upon naturally occurring family therapy sessions, we present a discourse
analysis of how this is managed through a range of discursive resources.
We show that adult family members construct what is inappropriate for
children to be exposed to by positioning blame with others. This has
implications for how family therapists deal with inappropriateness when
children are present while maintaining the equilibrium of therapeutic
alliances.
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O'Reilly, M., & Parker, N. (2014). ‘She needs a smack in the gob’: negotiating what is appropriate talk in front of children in family therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 36(3), 287-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00595.x
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Wiley
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Journal of Family Therapy
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10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00595.x
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en
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: O'Reilly, M., & Parker, N. (2014). ‘She needs a smack in the gob’: negotiating what is appropriate talk in front of children in family therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 36(3), 287-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00595.x, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00595.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving
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1467-6427