The Discourse of Child Counselling (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society)

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 At The Talk That Occurs There.--book Jacket. Child Counselling And Children's Social Competence -- Child Counselling As Institutional Interaction -- 'so This Is Being 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 Counselling And The Incitement To Communicate. Ian Hutchby. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [135]-141) And Index. 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