Edited by Claudio Scarvaglieri, Eva-Maria Graf and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
This edited volume offers up-to-date research on the interactive building and managing of relationships in organized helping. Its contributions address this core of helping in psychotherapy, coaching, doctor-patient interaction, and digital helping interaction and document and analyze essential… read more
Edited by Eva-Maria Graf, Marlene Sator and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional… read more
This paper discusses opportunities and challenges of a mixed-methods research model building on linguistic and psychological methods, to document, analyze and evaluate questioning sequences as agents of effectiveness in business coaching. It details the disciplinary needs of expansion and… read more
The article addresses Solution-Oriented Questions (SOQs) as an interactional practice for relationship management in psychodiagnostic interviews. Therapeutic alliance results from the concordance of alignment, as willingness to cooperate regarding common goals, and of affiliation, as relationship… read more
This article examines patients’ answers to doctors’ questions during history taking as a central activity format which reveal a deeper understanding of each other. An analysis of medical interactions shows that patients mostly expand the topical, structural and/or pragmatic scope of their questions. read more
