{"id":4691,"date":"2023-09-28T07:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questions-in-coaching.aau.at\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2023-09-28T07:29:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:29:03","slug":"iccap-2024-mannheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/questions-in-coaching.aau.at\/en\/iccap-2024-mannheim\/","title":{"rendered":"ICCAP 2024 – Mannheim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The “home” of our team in Mannheim, the Leibniz Institute for German Language, is hosting the annual ICCAP, the International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy, in 2024. The theme of the conference, to be held March 13-15, 2024, is “Therapeutic Change.” Thomas Spranz-Fogasy, head of our team in Germany, is co-organizer, Eva-Maria Graf is on the scientific board of the conference and the QueSCo team will submit one linguistic and one interdisciplinary paper. The call for papers can be found here<\/a> or below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Psychotherapy, arguably, is a type of social interaction in which participants adopt a longitudinal perspective. For therapists and clients alike, the raison d\u2019\u00eatre of psychotherapy is to work together towards a better life of the patient. This can mean solving psychological problems, overcoming unwanted symptoms, coping with life events, enhancing client\u2019s resources to deal with personality disorders, etc. In all of these cases, change to the better will be the criterion for therapeutic success. Psychotherapy research so far has tried to verify change by way of outcome measures, mostly questionnaires. However, both therapists and clients orient to the psychotherapeutic process itself as an arena in which change becomes manifest in various ways. Changes in the therapeutic relationship, in clients\u2018 storylines, in their emotional responses, the ways in which they display resistance and many other discursive phenomena provide for endogenous metrics of therapeutic change, which are perceived, discussed and evaluated by the parties. Moreover, therapists will be interested in which ways specific strategies of therapeutic work further or rather inhibit change in the client.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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With its microanalytic focus on observable verbal and embodied action and with its temporal perspective on unfolding therapeutic interactions, Conversation Analysis is ideally equipped to uncover therapeutic change and the effect of therapeutic work, as they become manifest in transformative sequences (Per\u00e4kyl\u00e4 2019). In contrast to most other work in CA, however, the perspective on change requires to go beyond individual sequences of interaction and to consider cross-sequential and cross-event relationships between moments of psychotherapeutic sessions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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ICCAP24 will zoom in on how therapeutic change manifests itself in therapeutic interaction and how the interactional work by both therapists and patients makes change possible. The conference invites contributions dealing with different aspects of therapeutic change from a conversation analytic perspective. Among others, relevant topics include:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n