AEGiS-BKREV: Discourses of Counselling: HIV Counselling as Social Interaction

(BKREV) Discourses of Counselling: HIV Counselling as Social Interaction

Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. 244p., bibliog., index. ISBN 0-8039-7661-5, 0-8039-7662-3pbk. $69.95, $21.95pbk.
David Silverman. 1997.

This book is the product of research that began in 1988 and is based largely on transcripts of tape-recordings of the counselling and advice-giving received by people who request an HIV test. The analysis of these tapes is a method called conversation analysis or CA. CA is concerned with the organization of talk. Part one of the book discusses HIV counselling and the basic methodological issues. This is followed by "Communication in HIV Counselling" which covers the communication formats in HIV counselling. Part three looks at delicate discussions and part four at advice-giving. The concluding chapter covers counselling as a discourse of enablement and implications for practice. This book is recommended for all academic and medical libraries. It will be of interest to researchers and students of counselling, psychotherapy and associated helping professions, especially those working with HIV positive individuals. "The book will also be essential reading for researchers and students in the traditions of sociological work on interactionism, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, applying these approaches in a sophisticated manner to the interactional and conversational strategies adopted in a health promotion environment."

Keywords: Counselling; Communication; Social Aspects) Copyright (c) 1999 - Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Review's may be reprinted or redistributed for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or educational advancement granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. For other reprinting, redistribution, or translation, address requests to H. Robert Malinowsky, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, PO Box 8198, Chicago, IL 60680 or electronically to hrm@uic.edu.
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