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Social workers’ reflexive understandings of their ‘everyday’ communications with children
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posted on 2023-06-09, 19:07 authored by Mark Hadfield, Gillian RuchGillian Ruch, Karen Winter, Viviene Cree, Fiona MorrisonOver the past two decades, the use of ethnographic research methods, in combination with a range of discursive, conversational, and multimodal analytical approaches, have provided vivid accounts of the complex nature of social workers' everyday communication. This paper discusses the potential and the problems of combining a video-stimulated recall methodology with an explicit theoretical framework, in order to generate critical reflexive “insider” accounts of social workers' direct encounters with children. The framework employed was based on an adaptation of Goffman's concepts of “framing” and “footing,” which were integrated into an analytical process designed to theorize social workers' critiques regarding the nature of their communication with children. Three detailed case exemplars are used to demonstrate the potential of this methodology to explore the “delicate” agency required by social workers in the practice of authentic communication in complex professional inquiries with children. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the theoretical and practical issues associated with utilizing reflexive methodologies in professional contexts.
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Child and Family Social WorkISSN
1356-7500Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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2Volume
25Page range
469-477Department affiliated with
- Social Work and Social Care Publications
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hadfield, Mark, Ruch, Gillian, Winter, Karen, Cree, Viviene and Morrison, Fiona (2020) Social workers’ reflexive understandings of their ‘everyday’ communications with children. Child and Family Social Work, 25 (2). pp. 469-477. ISSN 1356-7500, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12703. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.Full text available
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2019-09-23First Open Access (FOA) Date
2021-10-11First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
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