AIDS Counselling
Institutional Interaction and Clinical Practice

Applies the principles of conversation analysis to AIDS counselling situations.

Anssi Peräkylä (Author)

9780521022880, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 December 2005

384 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.496 kg

'An excellent study … well worth the investment … delivers more than it promises'. Journal of Sociolinguistics

Conversations between AIDS counsellors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Peräkylä applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counselling, using data from video-recorded counselling sessions in a London teaching hospital. He meticulously analyses this data to show how various questioning techniques, in this case arising from the Milan School Family Systems theory, operate in these situations, and how counsellors attempt through the design and placement of their questions to achieve the cooperation of their clients, with varying success. His conclusions provide a timely and illuminating insight into the management of a sensitive topic through various techniques of indirectness.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The quasi-conversational turn-taking
3. The client as owner of experience
4. The management of co-counsellors' questions
5. Some interactional uses of co-counsellors' questions
6. Addressing 'dreaded issues'
7. The interactional power of hypothetical questions
8. Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Counselling & advice services [JKSN2]