Discourses of Helping Professions
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2014
VI, 320 pages
978-90-272-6943-0 (ISBN)
Description
Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional discourse - by now well established fields in linguistic research - discourses of helping professions represent an innovative concept in its orientation to a common communicative goal: solving patients' and clients' physical, psychological, emotional, professional or managerial problems via a particular helping discourse. The book sets out to uncover differences, similarities and interferences in how professionals and those seeking help interactively tackle this communicative goal. In its focus on professional helping contexts and its inter-professional perspective, the current book is a primer, intended to spark off more interdisciplinary and (applied) research on helping discourses, a socio-cultural phenomenon that is of growing importance in our post-modern society. As such, it is of great relevance for discourse researchers and discourse practitioners, caretakers and social scientists of all shades as well as for everybody interested in helping professions.
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Eva-Maria Graf | Marlene Sator | Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
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- Discourses of Helping Professions
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Discourses of helping professions: Concepts and contextualization
- Contributions
- References
- How practitioners deal with their clients' "off-track" talk
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ordinary practices for discouraging talk
- 3. Interactions in adult psychotherapy, and between residential support staff and adults with intell
- 4. Seven conversational practices to discourage the client's trajectory and keep the session institu
- 5. Concluding comments
- Transcription symbols
- References
- Empathic practices in client-centred psychotherapies: Displaying understanding and affiliation with clients
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Concepts of empathy in the helping professions: A brief overview
- 3. Empathy in interaction
- 4. Enlisting practices to convey empathy during client storytelling
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- The interactional accomplishment of feelings-talk in psychotherapy and executive coaching: Same form , different functions?
- 1. Feelings-talk - interaction type across helping professions?
- 2. Emotions in professional discourse
- 3. Two professional helping contexts: Relationship-focused Integrative Psychotherapy and Emotional I
- 4. Interactional accomplishment of feelings-talk in psychotherapy and executive coaching - data anal
- 5. 'Feelings-talk' - an interaction-type across helping professions: Concluding remarks and critical
- References
- "Making one's path while walking with a clear head" - (Re-)constructing clients' knowledge in the discourse of coaching: Aligning and dis-aligning forms of clients' participation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The discourse of coaching: Between facilitating self-help and optimizing clients' performance
- 3. Knowledge management in discourse, and aligning and dis-aligning forms of clients' participation
- 4. Data, method, analysis and findings
- 5. Summary and interpretation of findings
- 6. Conclusion and outlook
- Transcription conventions
- References
- Form, function and particularities of discursive practices in one-on-one supervision in Germany
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Supervision in Germany: History, self-concept and the rise of coaching
- 3. Topics and functions of supervision
- 4. One-on-one supervision: Constellations and procedures
- 5. Supervision as institutional talk
- 6. Communicative tasks in counseling/consulting according to Kallmeyer's 'action schema'
- 7. Corpus, method and the session analyzed in this paper
- 8. Transcript analysis
- 9. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- "I mean is that right?": Frame ambiguity and troublesome advice-seeking on a radio helpline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Advice-seeking and troubles-telling
- 3. The Standard Advice Sequence on call-in radio
- 4. Advice-seeking contaminated by troubles-telling
- 5. Deferring advice
- 6. Reinvoking advice
- 7. Footing ambiguity: Declining the role of advice recipient
- 8. Conclusion
- References
- Professional roles in a medical telephone helpline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Model of analysis
- 3. The practice of counseling
- 4. The needs of advice seekers
- 5. A hybrid type of interaction
- 6. Communicative tasks
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Anticipatory reactions: Patients' answers to doctors' questions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Context of inquiry and data
- 3. Doctors' questions
- 4. Patients' answers
- 5. Discussion
- Transcription conventions
- References
- "Doctor vs. patient": Performing medical decision making via communicative negotiations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The communicative task of decision making
- 3. Typologies of decision making
- 4. Data background
- 5. Transcript analysis
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Time pressure and digressive speech patterns in doctor-patient consultations: Who is to blame?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data
- 3. The influence of extra-linguistic parameters on visit length
- 4. Interactional results
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Neurologists' approaches to making psychosocial attributions in patients with functional neurologica symptoms
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The data
- 3. Presenting the psychosocial aetiology of FNS
- 4. Discussion and conclusions
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
