Reid, Joanna (2012) Presenting Problems: A Discursive Examination of Psychological Consultations. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Problem presentation (PP) is considered central to diagnosis and treatment planning in psychological therapy. However, there is little research that has examined how this works in real-life consultations. This study used Discursive Psychology (DP) to examine how PP is discursively occurs in initial consultations. The data comes from audio recordings of two consultations from a university psychology clinic and two consultations from a rural primary health practice. PP was found to occur in a sequence identifiable by the inclusion of a problem invitation (PI) from the psychologist and a PP from the client. Analysis indicated that prior knowledge was relevant to construction of the psychologist’s PI. The client’s PP was found to focus on justifying the visit to the psychologist. A clearer understanding of these interactions suggests a need to review current psychologist training and registration requirements.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Supervisors: | Andrea Lamont-Mills |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2025 01:04 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2025 01:04 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | problem presentation sequence ; problem presentation ; problem invitation ; reason for visit ; psychology ; discursive psychology ; conversation analysis ; Jeffersonian |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52689 |
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