Paananen-etal2020

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Paananen-etal2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Paananen-etal2020
Author(s) Jenny Paananen, Camilla Lindholm, Melisa Stevanovic, Taina Valkeapää, Elina Weiste
Title “What Do You Think?” Interactional Boundary-Making Between “You” and “Us” as a Resource to Elicit Client Participation
Editor(s) Camilla Lindholm, Melisa Stevanovic, Elina Weiste
Tag(s) EMCA, Addressing, Decision making, Gaze, Gesture, Mental health, Participation, Person reference
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Year 2020
Language English
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Pages 211-234
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43531-8_9
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Book title Joint Decision Making in Mental Health
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Abstract

Communal ideologies related to psychosocial rehabilitation operate on a premise that recovery from illness can be promoted by reducing power differentials between clients with mental illness and support workers. Thus, ideally, clients and support workers should work side by side as “us.” Here, our focus is on instances when the support workers at a Finnish Clubhouse explicitly distinguish the clients from themselves. Drawing on group discussion data, we analyze support workers’ proposals that contain second-person plural reference forms. We show that these forms appear exclusively when the clients are asked to share their opinions. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the temporary categorization of clients as an outgroup separate from the support workers attracts the clients’ attention and invokes their responsibility to contribute to the decision-making interaction.

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