Discourses of Counselling
Subtitle: HIV Counselling as Social Interaction
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: February 10, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780803976610
Subjects: Counselling; HIV / AIDS; Medical Social Work; Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy - General
First sentence: As this chapter will show, there is no simple answer to the question: what is HIV counselling?
Description: In this book David Silverman offers a fully researched and analytically sensitive account of how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of counsellor and client. Drawing on research on counselling of clients undergoing an HIV test, the author explores the ways in which conversations between counsellors and patients reflect, embody and subtly alter assumptions about the purpose, methods and practice of counselling.