Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings
In this study I analyse Therapeutic Community (TC) group meetings for persons with drug addiction problems. Using the method of Conversation Analysis, I specifically focus on practices of knowledge management and sharing between the educators and clients of a TC in Italy. As part of their institutio...
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| author | Pino, Marco |
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| description | In this study I analyse Therapeutic Community (TC) group meetings for persons with drug addiction problems. Using the method of Conversation Analysis, I specifically focus on practices of knowledge management and sharing between the educators and clients of a TC in Italy. As part of their institutional remit, the educators encourage the clients to report information on their activities and to disclose aspects of their inner experience. This can lead to epistemic struggles, in which the clients resist providing information and the educators seek to overcome such resistance by making claims of pre-existing knowledge about the clients’ experience. After describing the design and sequential positioning of such claims, I argue that their use is functional to manage one of the dilemmas that characterise the educators’ professional practice. |
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| spelling | nottingham-278032020-05-04T20:17:35Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27803/ Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings Pino, Marco In this study I analyse Therapeutic Community (TC) group meetings for persons with drug addiction problems. Using the method of Conversation Analysis, I specifically focus on practices of knowledge management and sharing between the educators and clients of a TC in Italy. As part of their institutional remit, the educators encourage the clients to report information on their activities and to disclose aspects of their inner experience. This can lead to epistemic struggles, in which the clients resist providing information and the educators seek to overcome such resistance by making claims of pre-existing knowledge about the clients’ experience. After describing the design and sequential positioning of such claims, I argue that their use is functional to manage one of the dilemmas that characterise the educators’ professional practice. John Benjamins Zuczkowski, Andrzej Bongelli, Ramona Riccioni, Ilaria Canestrari, Carla 2014 Book Section PeerReviewed Pino, Marco (2014) Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings. In: Communicating certainty and uncertainty in medical, supportive and scientific contexts. Dialogue studies (25). John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 201-221. ISBN 9789027210425 Conversation analysis Epistemics Knowledge management Substance abuse treatment centers Therapeutic community https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/ds.25.10pin/details doi:10.1075/ds.25.10pin doi:10.1075/ds.25.10pin |
| spellingShingle | Conversation analysis Epistemics Knowledge management Substance abuse treatment centers Therapeutic community Pino, Marco Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings |
| title | Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings |
| title_full | Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings |
| title_fullStr | Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings |
| title_short | Epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings |
| title_sort | epistemic struggles in addiction therapeutic community meetings |
| topic | Conversation analysis Epistemics Knowledge management Substance abuse treatment centers Therapeutic community |
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