Constructing clienthood in social work and human services : interaction, identities, and practices / edited by Chris Hall ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Christopher, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social case work.

Social interaction.

Social work administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, language and contexts of meetings between them.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283904674

1283904675

9781417501076

1417501073

9781846424120

1846424127

OCLC:

567903598