AIDS counselling: institutional interaction and clinical practice

Conversations between AIDS counsellors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Peräkylä applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counselling, using data from video-recorded counselling sessions in a London t...

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Beteilige Person: Peräkylä, Anssi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995
Schriftenreihe:Studies in interactional sociolinguistics 11
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597879
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597879
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597879
Zusammenfassung:Conversations between AIDS counsellors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Peräkylä applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counselling, using data from video-recorded counselling sessions in a London teaching hospital. He meticulously analyses this data to show how various questioning techniques, in this case arising from the Milan School Family Systems theory, operate in these situations, and how counsellors attempt through the design and placement of their questions to achieve the cooperation of their clients, with varying success. His conclusions provide a timely and illuminating insight into the management of a sensitive topic through various techniques of indirectness
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Umfang:1 online resource (xvi, 364 pages)
ISBN:9780511597879
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511597879