Abstract
This research inquiry focused on how societal discourses played a role in the ways families experiencing trouble developed strategies to improve their lives. We believe that by looking at how families enact societal discourses for their benefit, family therapists would be better able to support these healthful initiatives. We studied Karl Tomm's idea of healing interpersonal patterns (HIPs), that is, those patterns of interaction that families engage in to counter their problems, specifically in relation to societal discourses. Staff clinicians and student interns of the Calgary Family Therapy Centre conducted the study in the course of their daily work routine, utilizing clinician-friendly research processes we call Research As Daily Practice. The first type of data included the most common HIPs from case records and the second type entailed societal discourses presumed to be helpful. Using situational analysis, we looked for intersections between the HIPs and societal discourses and were able to map the...
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