Joanna Pawelczyk

• Professor (Associate) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

This article examines how family and couple therapists respond to uneven alliances with their clients at the micro-level of therapeutic exchanges in the context of Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) interviews. We operationalize uneven alliance with the interactional concept of asymmetry of affiliation. To this end, first, using conversation analys...

This edited volume offers up-to-date research on the interactive building and managing of relationships in organized helping. Its contributions address this core of helping in psychotherapy, coaching, doctor-patient interaction, and digital helping interaction and document and analyze essential communicative practices of relationship management. A...

In this paper we examine how couple and family therapists, in accounting for the moments of their first therapeutic encounters identified as meaningful , invoke asymmetric affiliations with their clients in the Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) dialogues. Applying Conversation Analysis and drawing on Membership Categorization Analysis, we analyze...

The interest of this paper is in the gender roles and social expectations concerning femininity and masculinity as perceived and reported on by the Polish female and male psychotherapists of two generations. This is discussed in the context of socio-cultural changes in Poland that took place in the twentieth century and their consequences and impli...

A quasi-idiomatic expression ‘women have to prove themselves’ reflects various performance pressures and heightened visibility of women functioning in gendered professional spaces as advocated by tokenism theory. It is an example of how discriminatory practice – according to which competent and qualified women entering the culturally masculine prof...

Sociocultural factors are recognized as among the causes of eating disorders (EDs) in general and bulimia in particular. The social constructions of gender constitute a key factor among these causes and bulimia can then be construed as a response to a failure to meet the social (dominant and normative) expectations of what it means to be a woman, a...

Therapeutic alliance is often posed as an explanation for why therapy works, and there seems to be a consistent finding that the stronger the alliance, the greater the therapeutic change. Although extensively documented in the professional literature as an essential aspect of therapeutic alliance, the concept of emotional presence and its actualiza...

Caring for a terminally ill family member poses a great emotional challenge for an individual who, on the one hand, realizes the approaching death of a loved one and on the other, may experience various conflicting and negative emotions related to the task of caring itself. The gradual loss of a relationship with a close relative entails “a break i...

One of the goals of psychotherapy with bulimia patients is identification of the functions of the eating disorder in their lives. Thus, as in any psychotherapeutic approach, the therapist should facilitate the patient's disclosure of his or her experience of living with bulimia. Talking about one's dysphoric experiences and, particularly in the cas...

Women currently serve in 95 percent of all US Army occupations and make up 16.3 percent of the active Army forces. Numerous measures have been taken in the form of regulations and policies to advance the presence and position of women in the military (e.g., the recent lifting of the ban on women serving in combat roles). It is claimed, however, tha...

FULL FREE-ACCESS VERSION HERE: http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/research-papers/gender-and-sexuality-english-language-education-focus-poland This research report looks empirically and critically at gender and sexuality in a selection of primary and secondary Polish EFL classrooms, in terms of representation in textbooks and classroom discou...

Both gender and sexuality are still tabooed concepts in Poland and consequently they take on special significance in the local context of education. In this presentation we look into the context of the Polish EFL classroom to discuss how various gender and sexuality discourses emerge in the EFL textbooks and classroom interactions. In particular we...

Poland, as a young conservative democracy, is witnessing an unprecedented amount of public debate where 'gender' and 'sexuality' figure prominently. Both, however, tend to be perceived as foreign imports and thus fiercely contested. Consequently, the role of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) materials as well as teachers as potential mediators of...

This overview of language and gender research concerns Poland, one of the countries in the central and eastern European region where, together with the shared legacy of communism, there is considerable diversity due to differences in current and historical developments as well as language structure. In fact, language and gender research in Poland h...

Schools in general and classrooms in particular are among society’s primary socializing institutions (Freeman and McElhinny, 1996, p. 261; Adger, 2001). In particular, education, as an institution of Gramsci’s ‘civil society’ (Jones, 2006), can be considered a grassroots space where hegemonic gendered and sexual identities are constructed and regul...

Psychotherapy constitutes one of the contexts in which narrating one's personal experience is highly encouraged and expected. By telling their life stories, clients are able to organize their 'autobiographical self' as well as voice the aspects of their experience that need therapeutic intervention in order for the client to live a more fulfilling...

This innovative book critically examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including rich new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as Colombia, Liberia, Kenya, Vietnam, Japan, Greece, Bosnia-...

Symbolic Annihilation or Alternative Femininity? The (Linguistic) Portrayal of Women in Selected Polish Advertisements The year 1989 marks the beginning of sweeping political, economic and social changes in Poland. Since that time an expansion of women into top professional positions can be observed. Data from the last national census (2002) clearl...

Self-disclosure is endemic to psychotherapy. Though clients themselves disclose their experiences and emotionala states during the course of a psychotherapya session, they typically do so with extensive prodding on the part of their therapists. Thus, the therapist's interactional role is an agentive one, facilitating a client's verbalization of the...

Self-disclosure is endemic to psychotherapy. Though clients themselves disclose their experiences and emotional states during the course of a psychotherapy session, they typically do so with extensive prodding on the part of their therapists. Thus, the therapist's interactional role is an agentive one, facilitating a client's verbalization of thera...

In this paper I discuss the use of one of the most unique African-American communicative strategies of call and response as a marker of socially constructed gender among the members of a church committee. The data come from my fieldwork conducted in Ypsilanti, MI in 1999. Call and response, a minimal response, traditionally derives from the Black c...