Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services: Interaction, Identities, and Practices

✍ Scribed by Christopher Hall, Kirsi Juhila, Nigel Parton, Tarja Poso

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This innovative book explores social work as a series of encounters - between clients and social workers, their colleagues and other professionals, and more widely between citizens and the state. Providing a variety of social constructionist perspectives on the idea of the 'client', it presents in-depth discussion of the roles, language and contexts of meetings between social workers and their clients.

✦ Table of Contents

Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services: Interaction, Identities and Practices......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Transcription Symbols......Page 11
1 Introduction: Beyond a Universal Client......Page 13
Part I: Constructing Client Identities and Morals......Page 27
2 Legitimating the Rejecting of Your Child in a Social Work Meeting......Page 29
3 Caring but Not Coping: Fashioning a Legitimate Parent Identity......Page 46
4 Negotiating Clienthood and the Moral Order of a Relationship in Couple Therapy......Page 64
Part II: Categorizing and Negotiating Clienthoods......Page 83
5 Creating a ‘Bad’ Client: Disalignment of Institutional Identities in Social Work Interaction......Page 85
6 Parental Identity Under Construction: Discourse and Conversation Analysis of a Family Supervision Order......Page 98
7 The Absent Client: Case Description and Decision Making in Interprofessional Meetings......Page 114
8 The Dilemma of Victim Positioning in Group Therapy for Male Perpetrators of Domestic Violence......Page 131
Part III: Client Work in Professional Contexts......Page 147
9 Trafficking in Meaning: Constructive Social Work in Child Protection Practice......Page 149
10 Complicated Gender......Page 163
11 The Social Worker as Moral Judge: Blame, Responsibility and Case Formulation......Page 179
12 Writers’, Clients’, Counsellors’ and Readers’ Perspectives in Constructing Resistant Clients......Page 195
13 Client, User, Member as Constructed in Institutional Interaction......Page 210
14 Conclusion: Yes, But Is This of Any Use?......Page 225
References......Page 236
The Contributors......Page 258
Subject Index......Page 261
Author Index......Page 270