Should children be seen and not heard? An examination of how children’s interruptions are treated in family therapy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5966040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle O’reilly (0000-0003-1978-6405, University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 549-566 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445606064835 |
| OpenAlex | W2148248589 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 32 |
This work adds to the growing literature on children’s talk and the extensive research on interruptions by combining the two. I investigate children in the institutional context of family therapy and their interactions with the parents and therapist. Drawing upon 22 hours of natural family therapy data and four families, I use a discursive approach. I note that children are not attended to when they try to interrupt unless they persist and then the acknowledgement is negative. I show that when the main topic is about extremes of behaviour the child’s none relevant interruption is ignored. There are occasions however when the child interrupts with a topic relevant issue and these are usually attended to. This research has wider implications for therapeutic practice and children’s role in therapy. There is a need for further study of children’s interruptive discourse practice as research in this area is limited
Acknowledgement · Developmental psychology · Family therapy · Psychotherapist · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Educational and Psychological Assessments · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Medicine · Psychology
Negotiating abnormality/normality in therapy talk
Conversation Analysis and Child Language Acquisition
Advice Giving, Managing Interruptions and the Construction of ‘Teachable Moments’
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’
Discourses of development in the consulting room
You Can Take a Horse to Water But You Can’t Make it Drink’
Co-constructing parenthood in multiparty interaction
Children’s participation and the familial moral order in family therapy
Gossiping’ as a social action in family therapy
Children seeking the driver's attention in cars
Mobilising recipiency
What value is there in children's talk? Investigating family therapists' interruptions of parents and children during the therapeutic process
Discourses of Counselling
Language, gender, and society
Talk at work
Lectures on Conversation
Studies in Social Interaction
Sex differences in parent—child conversations
Do actions speak louder than words? An effect of the functional use of language on dominant sex role behavior in boys and girls
Schisming
Language, Gender and Society
Relevance theory and verbal interruptions
Notes on ?latency? in overlap onset
Gender, Gender Relations, and the Social Dynamics of Children's Conversations
Interruptive patterns in medical visits
Describing conversational dominance
Children's turn-taking behaviors Social-linguistic interactions
I wish you'd stop interrupting me
Interrupting the discourse on interruptions
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
Being interrupted
Toward a model of members' methods for recognizing interruptions
The Development of a Comprehensive System for Classifying Interruptions
Repair After Next Turn
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |