Negotiating therapy goals and tasks in cross-cultural psychotherapy

As therapy progresses, alliances become more complex and are constantly negotiated. Analyzing transcripts from video-taped actual therapy sessions, this article examines how a client and therapist from different cultures negotiate to assert and/or compromise their goals and tasks in psychotherapy. Using the Negotiation of Therapy Agenda (NOTA), we conduct a turn-by-turn analysis to examine discursive patterns deployed by the client and therapist...