Hillary Keeney and Bradford Keeney would like to express their gratitude and appreciation to our colleagues in Mexico for their support of this work. It is intended that this book serve as a resource for the future application of RFA across multiple fields. Though this book primarily exemplifies the application of Recursive Frame Analysis to the study of therapeutic sessions, RFA as a research tool is not limited to this domain but can be applied to the analysis of any change-oriented conversation, interaction, or even textual discourse to track the primary distinctions, recursively generated re-indications, and emergent contextual frames being constructed.
Commentary later generated by the researcher must be demarcated as a separate order of discourse, providing opportunity for multiple layers of analysis by researchers while keeping the primary data intact. By limiting the analysis to the actual performance of the conversation being studied - including spoken discourse and description of non-verbal action - RFA lays bare the primary distinctions, re-indications, and contextual frames embodied by the communication being studied, as well as those of the researcher. Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form, RFA offers both researchers and practitioners of all kinds a formal way of tracking the dramatological construction and movement of a conversation through its beginning, middle, and end episodes. Rooted to Gregory Bateson’s notion of contextual frame and the way that a distinction can recursively operate on itself as formulated by G. This book revisits some of Keeney’s original ideas while providing a more exhaustive theoretical foundation for RFA, a thorough exploration of its practical application as a research tool, and several detailed analyses of therapy sessions. Cybernetician and therapist Bradford Keeney invented RFA over twenty years ago as a means of discerning and indicating the bare bones organization of real-time therapeutic performance. Present themes in a cohesive manner.Ĭonsider your audience, the purpose of the study, and what content should be included to best tell the story of your data.Recursive Frame Analysis (RFA) is a qualitative research method for mapping and analyzing change-oriented conversation. Identify recurring themes, language, opinions, and beliefs. Review those codes and revise or combine into themes. See the attached document that demonstrates how one might highlight key words and phrases as well as make notes in the margins to categorize the data: 4. Use highlighters, notes in the margins, sticky pads, concept maps, or anything else that helps you to connect with your data. You may want to keep notes about your thoughts, ideas, or any questions you have.
This will require you to read your data, probably several times, to get a sense of what it contains. Mark the source, any demographics you may have collected, or any other information that will help you analyze your data.
Print out your transcripts, gather your notes, documents, or other materials. Qualitative data analysis requires a 5-step process: 1.
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