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Despite a growing literature on the value of relational data in studies of social phenomena, individuals still commonly constitute the basic unit of analysis in qualitative research. Methodological aspects of interviewing couples, particularly interviewing partners separately, and of conducting dyadic analysis have received scant attention. This article describes the experience of conducting separate interviews with both partners in 22 heterosexual couples (n = 44) in a study of the impact of the gynaecological condition endometriosis. In order to advance current methodological thinking regarding interviewing couples, we describe the dyadic, relational approach employed in designing the study and our specific method of dyadic analysis. We argue that utilising separate interviews with dyadic analysis rather than conducting joint interviews, while not without its ethical, practical and analytical challenges, offers considerable methodological benefits. Such an approach allows a unique relational insight into the impact of chronic illness on couples and how they navigate chronic illness by illuminating both shared and individual interpretations, experiences, understandings and meanings.

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Improving Access to Psychological Therapies has lead to a huge increase in the delivery of psychological therapy within the United Kingdom over the past 10 years. Central to the culture of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies is outcome monitoring, brought into every therapeutic encounter through the compulsory collection of the minimum data set in each session. This article explores the role of compulsory outcome monitoring in service users’ experiences of using Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, with a focus on how these forms are folded into distress, therapy and recovery. Data from a small-scale qualitative study are drawn upon. Thematic analysis was conducted on multimodal interviews with current service users. The article explores the ways in which the minimum data set acted as a ‘quasi object’, exploring three main roles of the minimum data set: as an authorising mediator, an alienating adversary and a deferring gatekeeper. Pictures of therapeutic progress, as presented via outcome measures, often ran counter to users’ reported experience of distress. We conclude that far from being a neutral and objective assessment tool, the minimum data set functions as a living actant in the therapeutic encounter.

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Hilário, Ana Patrícia (2017) Contestation, instrumental resistance and strategic conformation within the diagnostic process of Gender Dysphoria in Portugal. Health 21(5): 555-572. DOI: 10.1177/1363459317708826

In the Acknowledgements section of this article, the author would like to replace the word “practitioners” by “trans people”.

The final version should be read as:

Acknowledgements

The reflection developed drew on data collected in the frame of the European Research Council funded project TRANSRIGHTS: Gender citizenship and sexual rights in Europe: Transgender lives in transnational perspective. The project reflects only the views of the author, and the European Union cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. I would like to express my gratitude to TRANSRIGHTS coordinator Sofia Aboim, who encouraged my participation in the project, for her expertise and guidance during the construction of this article. I would like to thank the trans people who agreed to take part in the TRANSRIGHTS project.

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