"Orientation" as a Sensitizing Concept in Social Work
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https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v3i1.35Abstract
Studying institutional discourses between clients and social workers could strengthen reflections on social work practices by asking: What definitions of the situation do the partners talk from? What content do the partners wish to communicate and could there be considerable differences between the two of them? Why are the partners using specific forms of talk and what does that meta-communicate? Are they developing working agreements and tuning into each other or are communication complicated by contributors speaking from diverse footing and frames? This article explores some of these issues.
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Hersoug, A.G., P. Höglend, J. T. Monsen and O. E. Havik (2001): Quality of Working Alliance in Psychotherapy. Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research. 10: 205-216,
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Healy, K. (2005): Social Work Theories in Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hydèn, L-C and C. Baggens (2004): Joint working relationships: Children, parents and child healthcare nurses at work. Communication & Medicine 1(1):71-83.
Jokinen, A & K. Juhila (1997): Social work as negotiation. Constructing Social Problems and Clienthood. In: Nordisk sosialt arbeid nr. 3
Linell, P. (1998): Approaching Dialogue. Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives. IMPACT 3 Studies in Language and Society. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Linell, P. & E. Fredin (1995): Negotiating Terms in Social Welfare office Talk. In: Firth, A. (ed.) The Discourse of Negotiation. Studies of Language in the Workplace. Great Yarmouth, Pergamon.
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Oltedal, S. (2004): Klientsamtalar innan velferdsstaten. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
Pincus, A. and A. Minahan (1973): Social Work Practice: Model and Method. Itasca, Ill: Peacock.
Pithouse, A (1998): Social Work: The Social Organisation of an Invisible Trade. Second edition. Ashgate, Aldershot, Brookfield.
Sarangi, S. (2000) Activity types, discourse types and interactional hybridity: the case of genetic counselling. In Skrikant Sarangi and Malcolm Coulthard, (eds) Discourse and Social Life (eds). London: Longman.
Shulman, L. (1992) The skills of Helping Individuals, Families and Groups (Third Edition) Itasca Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers inc.
Scheff, T.J. (1990): Microsociology. Discourse, Emotion, and Social Structure. Chicago; The University Press of Chicago Press.
Schutz, A (1972) Hverdagslivets sociologi. København: Hans Reitzel Forlag oversatt:2005. Silverman, D. (1997) Discourses of counselling. London: Sage.
Silverman, D. (2001) Interpreting Qualitative Data Second Edition London: Sage.
Simmel, G. (1908): The Poor. In G. Simmel, G (1971) On individuality and social forms. The University of Chicago press.
Taylor, C. and S. White (2001): Knowledge, Truth and Reflexivity. The problem of Judgement in Social Work. Journal of Social Work 1(1): 37-59.
Timms, N. (1968) The Language of Social Casework. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Turner, J.H. (1988) A theory of Social Interaction. Stanford University Press, USA
Whittington, C. (1977) Social Workers` Orientations: an Action Perspective in The British Journal of Social Work. 7(1): 73-95.
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2008-04-01
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Oltedal, S. (2008). "Orientation" as a Sensitizing Concept in Social Work. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 3(1), 27–41. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v3i1.35
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