1st Edition
Social Work as Narrative Storytelling and Persuasion in Professional Texts
By Christopher Hall
Copyright 1997
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1997, this volume presents a critical analysis of how social work is formulated in everyday practice. Christopher Hall sets the task of exploring how social workers make their work visible and justifiable through their talk and writing. The analysis examines conversations and documents in which social workers describe and justify their work in research interviews, reports and... Read more
1. An Alternative Approach to Social Work: Accounts, Texts and Narrative. 2. Narrative as Performance. 3. Social Work Texts as Stories with Readers. 4. Handling Blame and Constructing Moral Character. 5. Explaining the ‘Facts’ and Claiming Entitlement. 6. Retellings: Following the Social Work Story. 7. Reported Speech: Hearing the Words of the Client. 8. Depicting Character: Reading Adequate Representations of the Client.
Biography
Christopher Hall
