2. “What is the experience of
nurses who have undertaken
training in solution focused brief
therapy?”
3. What has changed since you commenced the course?
Discuss
What else has changed
Nothing
Scale
Compliment
Thank You
4. 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
conceptualisation
Holistic
ethnography
Educational
ethnography
Adapted from Tesch, 1990 (in Miles and Huberman 1994.) Graphic overview of qualitative research types.
5. 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.
7. Martin Heidegger
Bracketing
“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”
11. 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”
13. “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.
14. 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
18. 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)
21. 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?
