Declientification: Undoing ClientIdentities in Care Planning Conferenceson the Termination of Residential Care
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In: The British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 41, No. 4, 06.2011, p. 778-798.
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T1 - Declientification: Undoing ClientIdentities in Care Planning Conferenceson the Termination of Residential Care
AU - Messmer, Heinz
AU - Hitzler, Sarah
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - That social welfare clients ought to be looked at not as given, a priori entities, but rather as categories produced in accordance with the policies, resources and options of the institutions involved is established today as a common ground for reflexive and reconstructivist perspectives in social work research. The disestablishment of the client role, however, up to now seems to have met a blind spot. This article will present findings from a conversation analytical study based on fourteen fully transcribed care planning conferences in the context of German long-term residential childcare, concentrating on five meetings explicitly designed to terminate the service provision. We will show how long-term residential care is regularly terminated by a range of interactional strategies complementary to those of client production that can be flexibly exploited in response to institutional and political context requirements. Conversation analysis is introduced as a method that can unveil the interactive practices professionals use in order to balance the constraints of institutional social work against the needs of the individual cases.
AB - That social welfare clients ought to be looked at not as given, a priori entities, but rather as categories produced in accordance with the policies, resources and options of the institutions involved is established today as a common ground for reflexive and reconstructivist perspectives in social work research. The disestablishment of the client role, however, up to now seems to have met a blind spot. This article will present findings from a conversation analytical study based on fourteen fully transcribed care planning conferences in the context of German long-term residential childcare, concentrating on five meetings explicitly designed to terminate the service provision. We will show how long-term residential care is regularly terminated by a range of interactional strategies complementary to those of client production that can be flexibly exploited in response to institutional and political context requirements. Conversation analysis is introduced as a method that can unveil the interactive practices professionals use in order to balance the constraints of institutional social work against the needs of the individual cases.
KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics
KW - Care planning conference
KW - child welfare
KW - client identity
KW - conversation analysis
KW - leaving care
KW - professional/client interaction
KW - Care planning conference
KW - child welfare
KW - client identity
KW - conversation analysis
KW - leaving care
KW - professional/client interaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959722154&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/bjsw/bcr054
DO - 10.1093/bjsw/bcr054
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 41
SP - 778
EP - 798
JO - The British Journal of Social Work
JF - The British Journal of Social Work
SN - 0045-3102
IS - 4
ER -