Meaning-Making Lenses in Counselling: Discursive, Hermeneutic-Phenomenological, and Autoethnographic Perspectives

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  • Tom Strong
  • Nathan R. Pyle
  • Cecile deVries
  • Dawn N. Johnston
  • Allison J. Foskett

Abstract

Counselling can be seen as a context or process for meaning-making where clients and counsellors actively interpret and construct meaning. We examine meaning-making in counselling through the lenses of three research methods: (a) discourse analysis, (b) hermeneutic-phenomenology, and (c) autoethnography. Specifically, we relate the process and experience of counselling in ways consistent with how meaning-making is regarded by each of these research methods. In this regard, we describe each method as if it was a counselling theory. We conclude by reflecting upon how these lenses on meaning-making and counselling can inform counselling practice generally and generatively.

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2008-05-26

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Strong, T., Pyle, N. R., deVries, C., Johnston, D. N., & Foskett, A. J. (2008). Meaning-Making Lenses in Counselling: Discursive, Hermeneutic-Phenomenological, and Autoethnographic Perspectives. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 42(2). Retrieved from https://dev.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/rcc/article/view/58846

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