Publications

Publication details [#60414]

Jager, Margot, Andrea F. De Winter, Janneke Metselaar, Erik J. Knorth, Sijmen A. Reijneveld and Mike Huiskes. 2015. Compliments and accounts: Positive evaluation of reported behavior in psychotherapy for adolescents. Language in Society 44 (5) : 653–677.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | complimenting | doctor-patient conversation | evaluation | psychotherapy

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Drawing on conversation analysis of video-recorded dialectical psychotherapy sessions, this paper sets out a specific interactional project of positively judging client-declared therapeutically desired conduct, using discourse markers, compliments, and accounts.