Analysing Social Work Communication - Discourse in Practice

With communication and relationships at the core of social work practice, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue and interaction, illuminating some of the profession's key dilemmas and using case studies analysing real-life social work situations.

List of contents

1. Social Work Discourse In Practice Christopher Hall, Kirsi Juhila, Maureen Matarese and Carolus van Nijnatten 2. Analysing Social Work Interaction: Premises and Approaches Kirsi Juhila, Åsa Mäkitalo and Martine Noordegraaf 3. Categorization Åsa Mäkitalo 4. Accountability Maureen Matarese and Dorte Caswell 5. Boundary Work Stef Slembrouck and Christopher Hall 6. Narrative Christopher Hall and Maureen Matarese 7. Advice-giving Christopher Hall and Stef Slembrouck 8. Resistance Kirsi Juhila, Dorte Caswell and Suvi Raitakari 9. Delicacy Carolus van Nijnatten and Eero Suoninen 10. Reported Speech Kirsi Juhila, Arja Jokinen and Sirpa Saario 11. Discourse Analysis of 'Ordinary' Social Work Christopher Hall, Kirsi Juhila, Maureen Matarese and Carolus van Nijnatten

About the author

Christopher Hall is Social Care Researcher in the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health at Durham University, UK.
Kirsi Juhila is Professor in Social Work at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tampere, Finland.
Maureen Matarese is Assistant Professor in Developmental Skills at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, USA.
Carolus van Nijnatten is Professor in Social Studies of Child Welfare in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

Summary

With communication and relationships at the core of social work practice, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue and interaction, illuminating some of the profession’s key dilemmas and using case studies analysing real-life social work situations.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Juhila Hall
• Assisted by: Christopher Hall (Editor), Kirsi Juhila (Editor), Juhila Kirsi (Editor), Maureen Matarese (Editor), Matarese Maureen (Editor), Carolus Van Nijnatten (Editor), Carolus van Nijnatten (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2013
• EAN: 9780415636827
• ISBN: 978-0-415-63682-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Discourse Analysis, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Health & personal development, Social Work, Literature: history & criticism, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism