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Transforming family positions: a conversational analysis of a family social work case
Author(s) -
Van Nijnatten Carolus
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2005.00360.x
Subject(s) - guardian , psychology , relation (database) , social psychology , addiction , social work , order (exchange) , sociology , political science , psychiatry , computer science , law , economics , finance , database
In a discourse and conversational analysis of a Dutch family supervision order, the transformations in family positions are examined. The parents in this case consider their son's drug addiction to be an individual problem. The family guardian succeeds in convincing them that it is a problem which concerns all the family rather than merely a personal issue for their son. By combining a positive and supportive attitude towards the parents with an unrelenting emphasis on the familial character of Marco's problems, the family guardian succeeds in getting the parents to reflect on their own position in relation to their son and their share in the problems in his life.