AIDS Counselling: Institutional Interaction and Clinical Practice (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 11)

Conversations between AIDS counselors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Per?kyl? applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counseling, using data from video-recorded counseling sessions in a London teaching hospital, and analyzes the design and placement of questions in these situations. His conclusions provide a timely and illuminating insight into the management of a sensitive topic through various techniques of indirectness. 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 Conversations between AIDS counsellors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Perakyla applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counselling, using data from video-recorded counselling sessions in a London teaching hospital, and analyses the design and placement of questions in these situations. His conclusions provide a timely and illuminating insight into the management of a sensitive topic through various techniques of indirectness.

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1. Introduction -- 2. 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. Anssi Peräkylä. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 344-354) And Index. Conversations between AIDS counsellors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. This study applies the principles of conversation analysis to an exploration of AIDS counselling, using data from video-recorded counselling sessions in a London teaching hospital. This book is about verbal interaction in AIDS counselling sessions at a London teaching hospital.