Constructing clienthood in social work and human services interaction, identities, and practices

This innovative book explores social work, therapy and counselling as a series of encounters - between clients and human services professionals, social workers, their colleagues and other professionals, and more widely between citizens and the state. It presents in-depth discussion of the roles, lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hall, Christopher, Ph. D. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Jessica Kingsley 2003.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798103406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services: Interaction, Identities and Practices; Contents; Preface; Transcription Symbols; 1 Introduction: Beyond a Universal Client; Part I: Constructing Client Identities and Morals; 2 Legitimating the Rejecting of Your Child in a Social Work Meeting; 3 Caring but Not Coping: Fashioning a Legitimate Parent Identity; 4 Negotiating Clienthood and the Moral Order of a Relationship in Couple Therapy; Part II: Categorizing and Negotiating Clienthoods; 5 Creating a 'Bad' Client: Disalignment of Institutional Identities in Social Work Interaction
  • 6 Parental Identity Under Construction: Discourse and Conversation Analysis of a Family Supervision Order7 The Absent Client: Case Description and Decision Making in Interprofessional Meetings; 8 The Dilemma of Victim Positioning in Group Therapy for Male Perpetrators of Domestic Violence; Part III: Client Work in Professional Contexts; 9 Trafficking in Meaning: Constructive Social Work in Child Protection Practice; 10 Complicated Gender; 11 The Social Worker as Moral Judge: Blame, Responsibility and Case Formulation
  • 12 Writers', Clients', Counsellors' and Readers' Perspectives in Constructing Resistant Clients13 Client, User, Member as Constructed in Institutional Interaction; 14 Conclusion: Yes, But Is This of Any Use?; References; The Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index