Montigny2018a

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Montigny2018a
BibType BOOK
Key Montigny2018a
Author(s) Gerald de Montigny
Title Conversation Analysis for Social Work: Talking with Youth in Care
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Tag(s) EMCA, Social work, Youth
Publisher Routledge
Year 2018
Language English
City Abingdon
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ISBN 9780815391807
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Series Routledge Advances in Social Work
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Abstract

What do the stories youth in state care tell about life in their family of origin? What stories do they tell us about coming into care, living in care, and relationships with foster-parents and social workers? This book presents the stories of youth in care, though not in splendid isolation, but as interactively produced, turn by turn in interviews, and in conversations with other youth.

By using tools from conversation analysis (CA), the author examines interviews with youth in care and social workers, to unfold the essential and incorrigible reflexivity of story production. CA allows us to grasp the ways that a youth’s story emerges turn by turn, and is an artefact of a social relation between a youth and an interviewer.

This text provides social work readers with a sense of art, artistry, and ambiguity at the heart of social interaction. It will be required reading for all social work students and academics looking for a deeper, more philosophical understanding of the profession.

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