Open AccessDoing Recovery Work Together: Clients’ and Counsellors’ Social, Discursive, and Institutional Practices
Author(s) -
Tanya Mudry,
Tom Strong,
Emily M. Doyle,
Mackenzie Sapacz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
canadian journal of counselling and psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1923-6182
DOI - 10.47634/cjcp.v54i4.61222
Subject(s) - addiction , tacit knowledge , ethnography , psychology , work (physics) , psychotherapist , engineering ethics , sociology , applied psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , public relations , epistemology , political science , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , anthropology
In this conceptual paper, we offer an alternative to traditional approaches to addictive behaviours and addictions counselling. We outline practice theory and tenets of an institutional ethnographic approach used to inquire into tacit or invisible practices of addictive behaviours, the work of recovery from them, and how counselling may (or may not) be helpful. We provide a conceptual alternative to working with clients who present for counselling with addiction concerns, using case examples as in invitation to practitioners to extend their work in new ways.