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Throughout this book, we rely extensively on the self-confrontation interview to understand the actions of youth, their parents, counselors, and other involved in the transition process. The research participants generated these self-confrontation interviews as they watched a video playback of the action in which they had just participated. For example, a mother watches the playback of her conversation with her son. The video is viewed with a researcher who stops the video approximately every minute. The researcher follows and respects the meaningfulness of the sequence being viewed and may stop it before or after the minute has elapsed. The researcher then asks the parent to recall her thoughts and feelings during that moment that they had just watched. The parent could also make any other comment about the segment viewed as long as it is clear to the interviewer whether the thought or feeling occurred then or now.
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Young, R.A., Marshall, S.K., Valach, L., Domene, J.F., Graham, M.D., Zaidman-Zait, A. (2010). Using the Self-Confrontation Procedure in Counseling. In: Transition to Adulthood. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6238-6_15
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