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Solution Focused Interactions as a Hermeneutic Endeavour.
Steve SmithRobert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
“What is the experience of
nurses who have undertaken
training in solution focused brief
therapy?”
What has changed since you commenced the course?
Discuss
What else has changed
Nothing
Scale
Compliment
Thank You
The research interest is in …
The characteristics of language
ReflectionThe comprehension of the meaning of text
/ actions
Discerning of themes
Interpretation
Phenomenology
Case study / life history
Hermeneutics
The discovery of regularities
Identification of elements, and exploration of
their connections
Discerning of patterns
As ideologies
As socialisationAs culture
In conceptualisatio
nHolistic
ethnographyEducational ethnography
Adapted from Tesch, 1990 (in Miles and Huberman 1994.) Graphic overview of qualitative research types.
The research interest is in …
The comprehension of the meaning of text
/ actions
Discerning of themes
Interpretation
Phenomenology
Hermeneutics
Adapted from Tesch, 1990 (in Miles and Huberman 1994.) Graphic overview of qualitative research types.
Martin HeideggerBracketing
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts”
Martin HeideggerIntentionality
Objective entity
Subjective experience
Martin HeideggerDescriptive
‘The Things themselves’
‘That which shows itself’
What happened? Why did it happen?
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hermeneutics
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The role of hermeneutics is,
“not to develop a procedure of understanding, but to clarify the conditions in which understanding takes place. But these conditions do not amount to a “procedure” or method which the interpreter must of himself bring to bear on the text; rather, they must be given”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Prejudicial Thoughts
“Twenty-five years of experience tells me that … with this bed business … any problem that happens in bed is … the crack in the ceiling, and where the bed is, and the view you have from where your head is on the pillow, looking out into the room (no matter how dark it is you can still see the room, you know it’s there) … and that is part of the context in which her problem happens …”
Coming Through The Ceiling.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Prejudicial Thoughts While remaining ‘text-focused’, allows the interpreter to utilise the fore-sights he or she brings to the endeavour in a restrained and scientific manner
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Prejudicial Thoughts
Hermeneutic Circle
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Prejudicial Thoughts
Hermeneutic Circle The iterative co-construction of solutions, moving from the grand to the minute … and back again.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Prejudicial Thoughts
Hermeneutic Circle
Fusion of Horizons
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Prejudicial Thoughts
Hermeneutic Circle
Fusion of Horizons The forming, and testing, of a shared understanding.
In short, our view holds that clients already know what to do to solve the complaints they bring to therapy; they just do not know that they know. Our job, as brief therapists, is to help them construct for themselves a new use for knowledge they already have.
(De Shazer et al, 1986. p.220)
Hermeneutic Shift
Client
Problem
Therapist
“How did you come to have this problem?”
Hermeneutic Shift
Being
“What would you rather be doing?”
Solution Focused Research
• What is the Research Question?• How will you know when you’ve answered it?• How will other people know when you’ve answered it?• Are any parts of that happening already?• On a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 stands for when you’ve
fully answered the Research Question …– where are you now?– how did you get to this point?– what will tell you that you’ve moved one point further up the
scale?
Thank you.
