Abstract
In Hong Kong no one has ever explored a female anorectic's experience of family therapy by inviting her to review her family sessions. By using a retrospective approach, this single case study adopted an interpretative paradigm with an open-ended question regarding how the patient experienced the family sessions. The distinct feature of this data collection was that the patient served as a research instrument and was invited to review six family sessions in order to review her past session experiences. Five themes emerged from the patient's storied review of the sessions: (1) how she viewed her own personal characteristics; (2) her changed perceptions of her family relationships; (3) her perceptions of her family quarrels' dynamics; (4) her resistance to recovery; and (5) her significant events in family therapy. With this unique client-driven approach for qualitative inquiry-her hands were writing for her heart; her words expressed her experience. Thus, the client was allowed to give her own voice to her subjective experienceand, thereby, to enhance the future of family therapy practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 41-64 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Feminist Family Therapy |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Case study
- Feminist family therapy
- Feminist research
- Identity
- Narrative family therapy
- Phenomenology
- Qualitative research
- Standpoint theory
- Structural family therapy
- Woman's perspective
- Woman's voice
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Applied Psychology