Publications

Publication details [#54911]

Lecouteur, Amanda and Katie Simmons. 2011. ‘Hypothetical active-voicing’: Therapists ‘modelling’ of clients’ future conversations in CBT interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (13) : 3177–3192.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | doctor-patient conversation | hypothesis | mode of communication | therapeutic conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study shows that therapists' routinely enacted ‘hypothetical active-voicing’ device can be employed as a means to pre-empt resistance from clients when proposing behavioural change.