Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services (eBook, ePUB)

Interaction, Identities and Practices
Redaktion: Juhila, Kirsi; Parton, Nigel; Hall, Chris; Poso, Tarja

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Providing a variety of social constructionist perspectives on the idea of the 'client', it presents in-depth discussion of the roles, language and contexts of meetings between social workers and their clients.

International contributors present discussion on categorization, analysing identities and reflexive practice. Drawing data from a variety of sources, including meetings, client files and transcribed dialogues with clients, the book employs methods such as conversation and discourse analysis to propose new insights into what it means to be a client of the human services agency.

Bringing together a rich variety of data, this volume forms an important contribution to major debates on the nature of social work and counselling. As well as innovative approaches to theory and research, the implications for practice in social work and counselling are discussed. Challenging previously-held notions about clienthood, this book is a useful and thought-provoking resource for social workers, counsellors, policy makers, academics, researchers and students and trainers in social work and counselling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846424120
• Artikelnr.: 38355788

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hall is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies, University of Huddersfield. Kirsi Juhila is Professor of Social Work at the University of Tampere, Finland. Nigel Parton is a Professor in Child Care and Director of the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies, University of Huddersfield, and visiting professor at the University of Tampere. Tarja Pösö is Professor of Social Work at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Tampere. All the authors have experience in social work practice and teaching and have published widely in the areas of social work, social policy, and social constructionist and discourse approaches to social work.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Introduction: Beyond a universal client. Kirsi Juhila
University of Tampere
Tarja Pösö
University of Tampere
Chris Hall and Nigel Parton
University of Huddersfield
UK. Part I. Constructing Client Identities and Morals. 2. Legitimating the rejecting of your child in a social work meeting. Christopher Hall
University of Huddersfield
Arja Jokinen and Eero Suoninen
University of Tampere. 3. Caring but not coping: Fashioning a legitimate parent identity. Christopher Hall and Stef Slembrouck
University of Ghent
Belgium. 4. Negotiating clienthood and the moral order of a relationship in couple therapy. Katja Kurri and Jarl Wahlström
University of Jyväskylä
Finland. Part II. Categorizing and Negotiating Clienthoods. 5. Creating a `bad' client: Disalignment of institutional identities in social work interaction. Kirsi Juhila. 6. Parental identity under construction: Discourse and conversation analysis of a family supervision order. Carol van Nijnatten
University of Utrecht
Netherlands and Gerard Hofstede
Youth Care Policy Officer
Southern Netherlands. 7. The absent client: Case description and decision-making in inter-professional meetings. Pirjo Nikander
University of Tampere. 8. The dilemma of victim positioning in group therapy for abusive men. Terhi Partanen
University of Jyväskylä. Part III. Client work in professional contexts. 9. Trafficking in meaning: Constructive social work in child protection practice. Ah Hin Teoh
Jim Laffer
Nigel Parton
University of Huddersfield and Andrew Turnell
Independent Social Worker
Australia. 10. Complicated gender. Tarja Pösö
University of Tampere. 11. The social worker and moral judge: Blame
responsibility and case formulation. Sue White
University of Huddersfield. 12. Writers'
clients'
counsellors' and readers' perspectives in constructing resistant clients. Gale Miller
Marquette University
USA. 13. Client
user
member as constructed in institutional interaction. Søren Peter Olesen
University of Aalburg and Danish National School of Social Work. 14. Conclusion: Yes
but is any of this any use? Christopher Hall
Nigel Parton
Kirsi Juhila and Tarja Pösö. Appendix. References. Index.