1st Edition
The Talk of the Clinic Explorations in the Analysis of Medical and therapeutic Discourse
352 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection of original papers by scholars who closely analyze the talk of the clinic features studies that were conceived with the aim of contributing to clinical practitioners' insight about how their talk works. No previous communication text has attempted to take such a practitioner-sensitive posture with its research presentations. Each chapter focuses on one or more performances that... Read more
Contents: R.J. Chenail, G.H. Morris, Introduction: The Talk of the Clinic. Part I:Therapy and Conversations About Therapy. R. Buttny, A.D. Jensen, Telling Problems in an Initial Family Therapy Session: The Hierarchical Organization of Problem-Talk. C.M. Jones, W.A. Beach, Therapists' Techniques for Responding to Unsolicited Contributions by Family Members. R.J. Chenail, L. Fortugno, Resourceful Figures in Therapeutic Conversations. D.A. Todtman, Behind the Looking Glass: Tinkering With the Facts on the Other Side of a One-Way Mirror. J. Gale, M. Odell, C.S. Nagireddy, Marital Therapy and Self-Reflexive Research: Research and/as Intervention. D.A. Ratliff, G.H. Morris, Telling How to Say It: A Way of Giving Suggestions in Family Therapy Supervision. Part II:The Discourse of Medical Care. A.M. Pomerantz, J. Ende, F. Erickson, Precepting Conversations in a General Medicine Clinic. R. Hopper, J.A. Ward, W.R. Thomason, P.M. Sias, Two Types of Institutional Disclaimers at the Cancer Information Service. S.L. Ragan, C.S. Beck, M.D. White, Educating the Patient: Interactive Learning in an OB-GYN Context. R.L. Street, Jr., W.R. Gold, T. McDowell, Discussing Health-Related Quality of Life in Prenatal Consultations. R.M. Frankel, Some Answers About Questions in Clinical Interviews. W.A. Beach, Preserving and Constraining Options: "Okays" and "Official" Priorities in Medical Interviews. K.S. McNeilis, T.L. Thompson, D. O'Hair, Implications of Relational Communication for Therapeutic Discourse.
Biography
G. H. Morris, Ronald J. Chenail
"...every chapter works with real talk, and it will be instructive (expecially to those interested in medical and counseling encounters) to see the range of what the contributors do with that kind of data."
—Journal of Language and Social Psychology"The Talk of the Clinic successfully merges an examination of critical issues in medical and therapeutic contexts with micro-analyses of discourse within those contexts to produce a text for students, researchers and practitioners."
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