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The discourse of child counselling

This book is an empirical study of naturally occurring interaction between child counselling professionals and young children experiencing parental separation or divorce. Based on tape recordings of the work of a London child counselling practice, it offers the reader a unique and sustained look inside the child counselling consultation room at the talk that occurs there. The book uses conversation analysis against a backdrop of sociological work in childhood and family studies to situate the discourse of child counselling at an interface between the increasing incitement to communicate in mod
eBook, English, ©2007
John Benjamins Pub., Amsterdam, ©2007
1 online resource (xii, 144 pages)
9789027292650, 9789027218599, 9789027218605, 9027292655, 9027218595, 9027218609
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Child counselling and children's social competence
Child counselling as institutional interaction
"So this is be taped" : from ethics to analytics in the data collection process
Talking about feelings : the perspective-display series in child counselling
Active listening and the formulation of concerns
"I don't know" : the interactional dynamics of resistance and response
Child conselling and the incitement to communicate