Conference Agenda

The paper addresses the relationship between person-centredness and meaning-making, referring to anthropological medicine and salutogenesis. Based on a video-documented conversation between a GP and his patient suffering from chronic pain, it is illustrated how negotiating health goals goes beyond the patient's mere non-illness and positive health but implicitly touches the practitioner's concerns and (life) goals: Balint talked of a struggle between doctors and patients about values and (life) goals. Both are involved in "mutual missionary work". "Shared decision-making" must be preceded by mutual understanding.

However, many people are unaware of their (implicit) life goals, which may be "represented" by physical expression. Here "the body as a mediator" (von Weizsäcker) might come into play, and it could, in turn, be linked back to the concept of salutogenesis. This raises as follow-up questions how the "sense FOR coherence" (Lindström) can be strengthened and how person-centred medicine can consider the physician as a subject and his biographically based subjective theories of health and illness.

The presentation is based on exemplary sequence analyses according to the method of structural hermeneutics. In addition, an overall shape of professional interactional patterns is presented, which results from the evaluation with the semi-interpretative rating procedure for solution-oriented interventions.

Professionals working in first-line’s psychological help services are highly exposed to stress and various psychopathological disorders such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress, or burnout.

The physical and mental investment mobilized in their interventions can impact their capacity to welcome and empathize with their patients. However, listening, and empathic posture represent essential facets for welcoming requests on the first-line’s psychological help, creating a positive therapeutic alliance and ensuring continuity of care.

This research analyzes in depth the way in which empathic capacities, are or are not, put in place during contact with the patient. Using an in-depth qualitative analysis technique called “Explicitation Interview” developed by Pierre Vermersch, we explored how practitioners (8) working in an emergency hotline mobilized their empathy in a context of they are not directly in front of a patient. We decomposed, moment-to-moment, the lived experience of these workers to better understand how their empathic capacities operate in a context of first-line’s psychological help like a hotline service. In our communication, we will propose a model illustrating the emerged theorization with the facilitating and constraining ingredients of the emergence of empathy in this kind of professional context. We also suggest some recommendations regarding the training for the first-line professionals.

The presented doctoral research utilizes qualitative methods to explore complex socio-cultural structures in Hungarian psychology education by relying on international critical psychology literature. The study examines the curriculum's impact on students' education, training, and employment prospects. Emphasis is placed on graduates' subjective opinions and experiences.

The methodology includes discourse analysis and 4 focus group interviews with 21 participants to assess graduates' experiences, employing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), an exploratory qualitative method in psychology.

Findings reveal historical and cultural aspects of Hungarian psychology, affected by institutional politics and funding schemes. By aligning these findings with international critical psychology literature, this transdisciplinary study addresses discipline-wide issues and underscores the relationship between official paradigms and practical applications in psychology. The study contributes to the evidence base for qualitative methods in exploring intricate socio-cultural factors affecting psychological education and practice, ultimately enhancing the understanding of the field's development and future trajectory.

International research has long pointed to the high suicide rate and poor mental health of farm workers. According to the literature, the work of farmers is associated with a number of operational difficulties. The majority of conventional farming problems can be addressed by the new modes of consumer-producer relatedness.

Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with community-supported agriculture (CSA) farmers from Hungary were conducted, and interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to explore the community determinants of farmers' work and the mental health challenges associated with local sustainable agriculture.

Our results show alternative market channels create novel situations and problems. Three main themes emerged from the interview data: Conflicted autonomy, The pressure of boxes, and Social overload.

The difficulties for CSA farmers seem to arise precisely in the alternative market channel: the operating conditions require several different farmer roles, which may even be contradictory with each other.

This paper explores the health and wellbeing cost of sustainable farming. Newer types of producer-consumer relationships require time and experience, extra effort or new skills, but farmers often do not possess these skills which can lead to mental health issues.