Ben Ong

Biographic Data

ID3812656
NAMEBen Ong
GIVEN NAMESBen
FAMILY NAMEOng
SIGNATUREBEN ONG
AFFILIATIONSLa Trobe University
ORCID0000-0001-5281-9980
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Constructing Research Quality: On the Performativity of the Coreq Checklist

    Open AccessNiels Buus, Ben Ong et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2026

    The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) checklist was designed to enhance quality in the reporting of interview and focus group studies, and it is widely endorsed by journals and publishers. However, it has also been heavily critiqued for its design and application in qualitative health research communities. In this article, we conduct detailed critical text analyses of eight articles and their accompanying self-repor…

  • The relatives of people with depression: A systematic review and methodological critique of qualitative studies

    Open AccessNiels Buus, Alan Petersen et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2024

    Being a close relative of a person with depression can take a heavy toll on the former, but these relatives are increasingly made responsible for taking on extensive carer roles. Research on relatives of people with depression is currently dominated by a focus on “carer burden” and although such a focus can explain many relatives' experiences and daily lives, it provides very limited insight into the everyday life of a person living with someone …

  • A conversation analysis of therapist repeats in open dialogue network meetings

    Open AccessBen Ong, Barne et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2024

    Writings on Open Dialogue approaches to working with families experiencing mental distress emphasize the importance of the therapist repeating the family's words back to them verbatim. Repeats are theorized to display the therapist's listening and to encourage elaboration without imposing the therapist's own interpretations or conclusions on the family. These recommendations have not been subjected to rigorous interactional investigation. In this…

  • Open dialogue trainees' perspectives on learning processes and psychotherapeutic practice: A prospective focus group study

    Open AccessNiels Buus, Ben Ong et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2023

    Open Dialogue is a collaborative approach to mental health care emphasizing integrated services and a dialogical psychotherapy approach. Open Dialogue training programs eschew traditional didactic teaching of technical therapeutic skills in favor of more experiential learning processes. It is unclear how these training programs affect trainees and shape their perspectives on Open Dialogue. Our aim was to follow up a group of Australian Open Dialo…

  • Power and dialogue: A review of discursive research

    Open AccessBen Ong, Eleftheria Tseliou et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2023

    Collaborative‐dialogic approaches to family therapy advise therapists to take a position of client‐as‐expert and promote an equality of multiple perspectives. This has led to debates about how to conceptualize power in dialogical therapies with scholars theorizing and researching power as social and negotiated through interaction. We aimed to understand power in dialogical therapy through reviewing discursive research on therapeutic conversations…

  • Empathic ‘my side tellings’: Three therapist strategies that ‘argue understanding’ in open dialogue reflections

    Open AccessKaren Nissen Schriver, Ben Ong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2022References: 11

  • Developing multiple perspectives by eliding agreement: A conversation analysis of Open Dialogue reflections

    Open AccessBen Ong, Barne et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Studies2022References: 42

    Open Dialogue is an approach to working with mental health problems that emphasises promoting dialogue between multiple perspectives within an individual person and between all the people present, including the therapists. Therapists’ own perspectives are often introduced during conversations called reflections, which present a potential source of different perspectives. Using conversation analysis we analysed 14 hours of video-recorded Open Dial…

  • Downgrading Deontic Authority in Open Dialogue Reflection Proposals: A Conversation Analysis

    Open AccessBen Ong, Barne et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2021

    The Open Dialogue approach promotes collaboration with clients and families in decisions about the direction of therapy. This creates potential problems for Open Dialogue therapists who seek collaboration but also have responsibility for managing the session. Using conversation analysis, we examined 14 hours of video recordings of Open Dialogue sessions, and specifically how therapists proposed the transition to a reflecting conversation. We foun…

  • Implementing Open Dialogue approaches: A scoping review

    Open AccessNiels Buus, Ben Ong et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2021

    Open Dialogue approaches fall broadly into the area of systemic psychotherapeutic practices. They encourage active participation of families and social networks, and emphasize genuine collaboration within highly integrated systems of health‐care service delivery. These approaches are currently being implemented in a growing number of services across the globe, and in this review, we summarize and discuss insights from papers concerned with the im…

  • Relationship Between Control Beliefs, Strategy Use, and Memory Performance in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Aging

    Rachel L Hutchens, Glynda Kinsella et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2013Cited by: 2References: 5

    Despite the weak relationship between control beliefs and strategy use, and control beliefs and memory performance for the aMCI group, the strong relationship between strategy use and memory performance provides impetus for further research into factors that can be used as a means of enhancing strategy use in interventions for aMCI

  • The Simple Copy Task: Detecting Higher Order Visual Processing Deficits in Schizophrenia, Dementia, and Movement Disorder Groups

    Open AccessBelinda A Dridan, Ben Ong et al.ARTICLEAustralian Psychologist2012

    The Simple Copy Task (SCT) is a figure copying test with inherent appeal due to its short administration time, graded task difficulty, varied stimuli, and potential to eliminate floor effects. Despite this, there is a lack of data regarding its construct validity and diagnostic utility. The present study compared SCT performance of schizophrenia (n = 29), dementia (n = 64), and movement disorder (n = 12) groups with that of unmatched healthy cont…

  • Perceptions of mental health professionals and family caregivers about their collaborative relationships: A factor analytic study

    Open AccessMegan Andrew, John Farhall et al.ARTICLEAustralian Psychologist2009References: 2

    This study investigated collaboration between mental health professionals and family caregivers by examining perceptions of their routine relationships. Independent samples of professionals (N = 240) and family caregivers of adults with severe mental illness (N = 270) responded to items developed to measure 14 facets of collaboration. Principal component analyses and standard multiple regressions were performed. Five components, accounting for 55…

  • Sensation seeking and the prediction of attitudes and behaviours of wine tourists

    Open AccessGraeme Galloway, Richard Mitchell et al.ARTICLETourism Management2008Cited by: 13References: 62

  • Hopkins Verbal Learning Test: Normative data for older Australian adults

    Open AccessRobert Hester, Robert L Hester et al.ARTICLEAustralian Psychologist2004Cited by: 1References: 1

    Normative data from 203 community-dwelling older Australian adults are presented in relation to performance on the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test. Age and years of education were identified as significantly impacting on performance. Therefore, data are presented for three separate age groups (60 – 69 years; 70 – 79 years; 80 – 89 years) and two different lengths of education groups. Comparison between the performance of the Australian sample and an…