Discourses of counselling : HIV counselling as social interaction

Author(s)

• Silverman, David

Bibliographic Information

Discourses of counselling : HIV counselling as social interaction

David Silverman

SAGE, 1997

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-240) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this book, David Silverman offers a fully researched and analytically sensitive account of how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of counsellor and client. Drawing on research on counselling of clients undergoing an HIV test, the author explores the ways in which conversations between counsellors and clients reflect, embody and subtly alter assumptions about the purpose, method and practice of counselling. This critical appreciation of the modes of engagement between counsellor and client will be of interest to researchers and students of counselling, psychotherapy and associated helping professions. Practitioners - particularly those involved in HIV and other health counselling - will be stimulated to reflect on and respond to Silverman's analysis in their own practice. The book will also be essential reading for researchers and students in the traditions of sociological work on interactionism, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, applying these approaches in a sophisticated manner to the interactionist and conversational strategies adopted in a health promotion environment.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION What Is HIV Counselling? Basic Methodological Issues PART TWO: COMMUNICATION IN HIV COUNSELLING Communication Formats in HIV Counselling PART THREE: DELICATE DISCUSSIONS The Construction of `Delicate' Objects in Counselling Offering the Agenda to the Patient Delays in Delivering Test Results in Post-HIV-Test Counselling Interviews PART FOUR: ADVICE-GIVING Advice-Giving and Advice-Reception Resisting Advice Concealing Advice The Advice-as-Information Sequence PART FIVE: CONCLUSION Counselling as a Discourse of Enablement Implications for Practice

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Details

• NCID: BA30642791
• ISBN:
  • 0803976615
  • 0803976623
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 244 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 361.323
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : HIV-positive persons -- Counseling of
  • LCSH : Counselor and client
  • LCSH : Health counseling