Thursday, February 26

8:45–9:30
Registration
9:30–10:00
Opening
10:00–11:30

Plenary session

Steven Clayman: Methodology of Longitudinal CA: Insights from Presidential Press Conferences to Psychotherapy

11:30–12:00
Coffee break
12:00–13:30

Parallel Sessions

Short Paper Session 1
  • John Rae: Change and Continuity in Talking about Emotional Content in School-based Humanistic Counselling for Adolescents Experiencing Psychological Distress: A Longitudinal Single-Case Interactional Analysis of Sessions from the ETHOS Randomised Controlled Trial
  • Jarl Wahlström: Changes in Sequential Organization, Transformational Patterns, and Agency Positioning in Psychotherapeutic Projects within One Psychotherapy Process
  • Dawid Storman: Indicators of Change in Longitudinal Psychotherapy Research: a Protocol of a Scoping Review
Short Paper Session 2
  • Maartje Roodzant, Wyke Stommel, Bogdana Huma, Marie Rickert: “You Are Doing a Good Job”: Compliments in Telephone and Chat Counselling
  • Eva-Maria Graf, Melanie Fleischhacker: Securing Clients’ Agreement on Goals: Analyzing Extended Sequences of Talk in First Sessions of Business Coaching
  • Melanie Fleischhacker, Eva-Maria Graf, Sanna Vehviläinen: Doing Authenticity and Credibility of Change: Clients’ Extended Answers to Wh-question for Solution Generation in Coaching
13:30–14:30
Lunch
14:30–16:00

Parallel Sessions

Short Paper Session 3
  • Bartłomiej Taurogiński: The Interactional Emergence of Self in Couples Therapy for Personality-Disordered Clients
  • Mariusz Furgał, Karolina Dejko-Wańczyk, Katarzyna Gdowska, Milena Kansy, Paulina Cofór-Pinkowska, Krzysztof Bańczyk, Izabela Janeczek-Siejka: Therapeutic Alliance in Couples Therapy: Affiliation and Repair Mechanisms in Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Christian Sell, Stefan Pfänder: Struggling for Resonance: Mediopassive Interaction in a Long-Term Treatment of Severe Personality Disorder
Short Paper Session 4
  • Ireni Farag: Training versus Talking: How Therapists Actually Ask Questions
  • Mariel Wuolio: Interactional Engagement in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy – A Multimodal Longitudinal Study of Engagement Practices between Therapist and Client throughout a Brief-Therapeutic Process
  • Aurora Guxholli, Ilkka Arminen: Therapist’s Repeats in Interactionally Unproblematic and Problematic Contexts. A Study of Reflexivity in Therapeutic Action
16:00–16:30
Coffee break
16:30–18:00

Parallel Sessions

Short Paper Session 5
  • Silja Mäki: Agency Distribution or Agency Obscuring? Patient Agency in the Treatment Discussions of Eating Disorders
  • Mimi Suzuki: “What Do You Think Would Help?”: Patient View Elicitors and Institutional Constraints in Emergency Department Psychosocial Assessments
  • Yuanyuan Zhang, Saul Albert, Jessica Robles, Elizabeth Peel: The Overall Structural Organization of a Rogerian Therapy Session
Short Paper Session 6
  • Marcos Herrera: “I Love You Too”: On the Interactional Response of Therapists to the Declaration of Positive Feelings by the Client
  • Jenny Paananen, Karita Suomalainen, Marja Etelämäki, Tarja Koffert, Linda Sirkiä: Identifying with Extreme Experiences in Group Therapy
  • Bernadetta Janusz, Paulina Cofór-Pinkowska, Dagmara Mętel, Aleksandra Katarzyna Tomasiewicz, Anssi Peräkylä: Transformation of the ‘Why Question’ in the Therapy of Parents Dealing with the Suicide of Their Child

Friday, February 27

9:00–10:30

Plenary

Arnulf Deppermann, Anja Stukenbrock and Carl Scheidt: Interactional Histories of Change in Psychotherapy

10:30–11:00
Coffee break
11:00–12:30

Parallel Sessions

Session 7 – Panel: Managing Agency Across Sessions of Psychotherapy and Related Helping Format
  • Kristin Bührig: Beyond Institutional Routines: Agency, Information Gathering, and Biographical-Narrative Intervention in the Context of Self-help Group Communication
  • Eva-Maria Graf: Negotiating Agency in (Extended) Problem- vs. Solution-Oriented Questioning Sequences in Business Coaching: A Case Study of a Non-Successful Coaching Process
  • Claudio Scarvaglieri: The Development of Patient Agency in Psychotherapy: A Longitudinal Perspective
Short Paper Session 8
  • Mie Femø Nielsen: Live Process Reports Doing Presence-Work in Emotional Support Interaction
  • Tara Roman: The Use of a Musical Motif in the Achievement of Intersubjectivity in Music Therapy with a Child with Disabilities: An Inclusive Research, Longitudinal Conversation Analysis
  • Aurora Guxholli, Carolina Fenner, Elizabeth Li, Christian Sell, Andrea Jesser: The Sequential Structure of Guided Affective Imagery Episodes in Guided Imagery Psychotherapy: A Conversation Analytic Study
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:30

Parallel Sessions

Short Paper Session 9
  • Joanna Jurek: In Defining the Connection to the Deceased Child in the Couple Therapy Process
  • Johan Berg & Nataliya Thell: Eliciting Reflection in Research Interviews on Countertransference in Psychotherapy
  • Anca-Cristina Sterie, Valérie Compaoré, Pierre-Yves Brand: Offering to Say a Prayer in Discussions between Hospitalised Patients and Spiritual Counsellors: a Delicate Activity
Short Paper Session 10
  • Beatrice Costa: Language and the Construction of Connection in Mediation: An Interactional Linguistic Perspective on a Psychotherapy-Related Practice
  • Traudl Heupgen: Creating Connection in Mediation: The Language of Bonding through Interactional Grammar
  • Myra Deraîche, Cynthia Martiny: A Case Study of Intercultural Negotiation Around Immigrant CVs in a Francophone Canadian Context Within a Career Counseling Process
15:30–16:00
Coffee
16:00–17:30

Parallel Data Sessions

  • Paulina Cofór Pinkowska, Aleksandra Katarzyna Tomasiewicz, Dagmara Mętel, Anssi Peräkyla, Bernadetta Janusz: Couple Therapy after Suicidal Loss: Transformations of Guilt
  • Aleksandra Katarzyna Tomasiewicz, Barbara Wojszel: Family Therapy: From Practices of Symbiosis to Practices of Individuation in the Family Interactions
  • Schriver Karen: Agency in Psychosis Care: Transforming Patients’ Requests, Suggestions, and Complaints into Resources
Evening
Conference dinner (to be paid at the restaurant by participants)

Saturday, February 28

9:00–10:30
Short Paper Session 11
  • Peter Muntigl, Claudio Scarvaglieri, July De Wilde: Reflections on the Therapeutic Work of Laughter
  • Rose McCabe, Lisa Bortolotti: How (not) to Talk to People about Mental Health: Responsibility, Blame and Agency
  • Robert Elliott, James MacDonald, Jan Stiegler, Simran Chatha: Exploring Stuckness in Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Pilot Analysis
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–13:00

Plenary discussion “Interactional Fingerprint of Psychotherapy”

Joanna Pawelczyk, Sanna Vehviläinen, John Rae

13:00–13:15
Closing of the conference