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Papers by Julie Tilsen

Research paper thumbnail of Psychotherapy Research, the Recovery Movement and Practice-Based Evidence in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Pedagogy and Praxis: Postmodern Spirit in the Classroom

Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Popular Culture Texts and Young People: Making Meaning, Honoring Resistance, and Becomein Harry Potter

Research paper thumbnail of Vignettes from the Doghouse: Tales of Canine Co-Therapy

Journal of Family Life a Quarterly For Empowering Families, 1998

... Related Items: Show Related Items. Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. T... more ... Related Items: Show Related Items. Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title: Vignettes from the Doghouse: Tales of Canine Co-Therapy. Authors: Tilsen, Julie. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Resisting Normativity: Queer Musings on Politics, Identity, and the Performance of Therapy

... Tilsen, Julie 1 ; Nylund, Dave 2. Abstract: Some of the different concepts and issues relatin... more ... Tilsen, Julie 1 ; Nylund, Dave 2. Abstract: Some of the different concepts and issues relating to queers in relation to politics, identity, and the performance of therapy are discussed. ... Full Text PDF (95kb). To cite this article: Tilsen, Julie and Nylund, Dave. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Feedback informed treatment: evidence-based practice meets social construction

Family process, 2015

This article explores the challenges presented by the mandate for evidence-based practice for fam... more This article explores the challenges presented by the mandate for evidence-based practice for family therapists who identify with the philosophical stance of social construction. The history of psychotherapy outcome research is reviewed, as are current findings that provide empirical evidence for an engaged, dialogic practice. The authors suggest that the binary between empiricism and social construction may be unhinged by understanding empiricism as a particular discursive frame (i.e., a particular way of talking, acting, and being in the world), one of many available as a way of understanding and talking about our work. Through a case vignette, the authors introduce the evidence-based practice of Feedback Informed Treatment as an elaboration of social construction, and as an example of bridging the gap between the discursive frames of empiricism and social construction.

Research paper thumbnail of Cultural Studies Methodologies and Narrative Family Therapy: Therapeutic Conversations About Pop Culture

Therapists recognize that popular media culture is an influential force that shapes identities an... more Therapists recognize that popular media culture is an influential force that shapes identities and relationships in contemporary society. Indeed, people have serious relationships with the commodities and practices that emerge from pop culture. However, they often lack the conceptual and conversational resources to engage meaningfully with clients about pop culture's influence in their lives. Cultural studies is introduced as an interdisciplinary approach that provides frameworks for both theory and practice that position therapists and clients to critically examine the role of pop culture in their lives. Cultural studies and narrative therapy are discussed as praxis allies that share a populist political intention and counter-hegemonic discursive practices. The integration of cultural studies methodolo-gies into narrative therapy practice with a parent and her teenage daughter is illustrated through a case vignette.

Research paper thumbnail of Pedagogy and Praxis: Postmodern Spirit in the Classroom

Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2006

... 25, No. 4, 2006, pp. 21–31 PEDAGOGY AND PRAXIS: POSTMODERN SPIRIT IN THE CLASSROOM DAVID NYLU... more ... 25, No. 4, 2006, pp. 21–31 PEDAGOGY AND PRAXIS: POSTMODERN SPIRIT IN THE CLASSROOM DAVID NYLUND, PH.D., MSW California State University–Sacramento JULIETILSEN, MA Argosy University–Twin Cities ... 21 Page 2. 22 Nylund and Tilsen ...

Research paper thumbnail of Psychotherapy Research, the Recovery Movement and Practice-Based Evidence in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 2008

This article reviews the literature on psychotherapy outcome research and discusses the relations... more This article reviews the literature on psychotherapy outcome research and discusses the relationship between those findings and the tenets of the consumer-driven recovery model. The research provides compelling evidence for practitioners to abandon the current emphasis on diagnosis and theory, model, and technique in favor of a partnership with clients that leverages the common factors and places emphasis on the alliance. Empirical support of the shortcomings of evidence-based practices is provided. Use of outcome and alliance feedback to inform the work and shift to practice-based evidence is offered as a practice that is informed by the research and honors the recovery model's call for consumer-driven mental health services.

Research paper thumbnail of Nimble and Courageous Acts: How Michael Became the Boss of Himself

Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2005

... 29–42 NIMBLE AND COURAGEOUS ACTS: HOW MICHAEL BECAME THE BOSS OF HIMSELF ... And so do Father... more ... 29–42 NIMBLE AND COURAGEOUS ACTS: HOW MICHAEL BECAME THE BOSS OF HIMSELF ... And so do Father and Zack and Nana and Granddad and Grandpa and Grammar and Auntie and— MICHAEL: But none of you are at school. And everyone there fits in but I don't. ...

Research paper thumbnail of We Don't Need No Education

Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2007

Parent education has existed in some form in this country since the early nineteenth century and ... more Parent education has existed in some form in this country since the early nineteenth century and is considered a typical task of family therapy. Based on modernist notions of a universal construction of childhood and informed by the theories from which developmental psychology emerged, parent education has been critiqued as representing Eurocentric, middle-class values. This paper will provide a brief history of parent education and a postmodern critique of its origins and methods. An alternative narrative therapy practice that brings forward parents' insider knowledges is reviewed and presented in a case vignette of a session with the parents of a 10-year-old boy.

Research paper thumbnail of Psychotherapy Research, the Recovery Movement and Practice-Based Evidence in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Pedagogy and Praxis: Postmodern Spirit in the Classroom

Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Popular Culture Texts and Young People: Making Meaning, Honoring Resistance, and Becomein Harry Potter

Research paper thumbnail of Vignettes from the Doghouse: Tales of Canine Co-Therapy

Journal of Family Life a Quarterly For Empowering Families, 1998

... Related Items: Show Related Items. Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. T... more ... Related Items: Show Related Items. Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title: Vignettes from the Doghouse: Tales of Canine Co-Therapy. Authors: Tilsen, Julie. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Resisting Normativity: Queer Musings on Politics, Identity, and the Performance of Therapy

... Tilsen, Julie 1 ; Nylund, Dave 2. Abstract: Some of the different concepts and issues relatin... more ... Tilsen, Julie 1 ; Nylund, Dave 2. Abstract: Some of the different concepts and issues relating to queers in relation to politics, identity, and the performance of therapy are discussed. ... Full Text PDF (95kb). To cite this article: Tilsen, Julie and Nylund, Dave. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Feedback informed treatment: evidence-based practice meets social construction

Family process, 2015

This article explores the challenges presented by the mandate for evidence-based practice for fam... more This article explores the challenges presented by the mandate for evidence-based practice for family therapists who identify with the philosophical stance of social construction. The history of psychotherapy outcome research is reviewed, as are current findings that provide empirical evidence for an engaged, dialogic practice. The authors suggest that the binary between empiricism and social construction may be unhinged by understanding empiricism as a particular discursive frame (i.e., a particular way of talking, acting, and being in the world), one of many available as a way of understanding and talking about our work. Through a case vignette, the authors introduce the evidence-based practice of Feedback Informed Treatment as an elaboration of social construction, and as an example of bridging the gap between the discursive frames of empiricism and social construction.

Research paper thumbnail of Cultural Studies Methodologies and Narrative Family Therapy: Therapeutic Conversations About Pop Culture

Therapists recognize that popular media culture is an influential force that shapes identities an... more Therapists recognize that popular media culture is an influential force that shapes identities and relationships in contemporary society. Indeed, people have serious relationships with the commodities and practices that emerge from pop culture. However, they often lack the conceptual and conversational resources to engage meaningfully with clients about pop culture's influence in their lives. Cultural studies is introduced as an interdisciplinary approach that provides frameworks for both theory and practice that position therapists and clients to critically examine the role of pop culture in their lives. Cultural studies and narrative therapy are discussed as praxis allies that share a populist political intention and counter-hegemonic discursive practices. The integration of cultural studies methodolo-gies into narrative therapy practice with a parent and her teenage daughter is illustrated through a case vignette.

Research paper thumbnail of Pedagogy and Praxis: Postmodern Spirit in the Classroom

Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2006

... 25, No. 4, 2006, pp. 21–31 PEDAGOGY AND PRAXIS: POSTMODERN SPIRIT IN THE CLASSROOM DAVID NYLU... more ... 25, No. 4, 2006, pp. 21–31 PEDAGOGY AND PRAXIS: POSTMODERN SPIRIT IN THE CLASSROOM DAVID NYLUND, PH.D., MSW California State University–Sacramento JULIETILSEN, MA Argosy University–Twin Cities ... 21 Page 2. 22 Nylund and Tilsen ...

Research paper thumbnail of Psychotherapy Research, the Recovery Movement and Practice-Based Evidence in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 2008

This article reviews the literature on psychotherapy outcome research and discusses the relations... more This article reviews the literature on psychotherapy outcome research and discusses the relationship between those findings and the tenets of the consumer-driven recovery model. The research provides compelling evidence for practitioners to abandon the current emphasis on diagnosis and theory, model, and technique in favor of a partnership with clients that leverages the common factors and places emphasis on the alliance. Empirical support of the shortcomings of evidence-based practices is provided. Use of outcome and alliance feedback to inform the work and shift to practice-based evidence is offered as a practice that is informed by the research and honors the recovery model's call for consumer-driven mental health services.

Research paper thumbnail of Nimble and Courageous Acts: How Michael Became the Boss of Himself

Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2005

... 29–42 NIMBLE AND COURAGEOUS ACTS: HOW MICHAEL BECAME THE BOSS OF HIMSELF ... And so do Father... more ... 29–42 NIMBLE AND COURAGEOUS ACTS: HOW MICHAEL BECAME THE BOSS OF HIMSELF ... And so do Father and Zack and Nana and Granddad and Grandpa and Grammar and Auntie and— MICHAEL: But none of you are at school. And everyone there fits in but I don't. ...

Research paper thumbnail of We Don't Need No Education

Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2007

Parent education has existed in some form in this country since the early nineteenth century and ... more Parent education has existed in some form in this country since the early nineteenth century and is considered a typical task of family therapy. Based on modernist notions of a universal construction of childhood and informed by the theories from which developmental psychology emerged, parent education has been critiqued as representing Eurocentric, middle-class values. This paper will provide a brief history of parent education and a postmodern critique of its origins and methods. An alternative narrative therapy practice that brings forward parents' insider knowledges is reviewed and presented in a case vignette of a session with the parents of a 10-year-old boy.