Qualitative resource-based consultation: Resource-generative inquiry and reflective dialogue with four Latin American families and their therapists

This research study employed in-depth interviews with Latino families in therapy, to find out what they perceived their family resources and strengths to be and how they thought the identified resources and strengths could be utilized in therapy. Their respective therapists also participated, both as individual reactants and as a reflective focus group. The therapists were asked to respond to their client-family\u27s views and to provide suggestions about the future use of the study\u27s findings in family therapy. This research emphasized family resources and strengths within the context of ethnic-specific families. It also emphasized dialogue and reflection, a recursive client-therapist system, and collaboration between the participants and the researcher within the research paradigm of critical theory and the methodological framework of grounded theory. The entire process was defined as resource-base consultation and it encompasses two primary phases, resource-generative inquiry and reflective dialogue