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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.
List 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
About the author
David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is now Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department as well as Visiting Professor in the Business Schools, King’s College, London, Leeds University and University of Technology Sydney and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations, shelters for homeless people and HIV-test counselling.
He is the author of Doing Qualitative Research (sixth edition, 2022) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (second edition, 2013c). He is the editor of Qualitative Research (fifth edition, 2021) and the Sage series Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years, he has offered short, hands-on workshops in qualitative research for universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Now retired from full-time work, he aims to watch 100 days of county cricket a year. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandsons as well as voluntary work in an old people’s home where he chats and sings with residents.
Summary
In this book, the author offers an analytical account of how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of counsellor and client. Silverman draws on research on counselling of clients undergoing an HIV test.
