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'Let's check in with our tummies': Orienting to feelings-talk in group supervision for psychotherapy counsellors
journal contribution
posted on 2018-04-20, 14:13 authored by Ian Hutchby, Alison DartThis article examines a particular kind of business-opening activity found in a specific, and little analysed, type of institutional group meeting: group supervision for psychotherapeutic counsellors. The data consist of a particular set of activities that occur in the initial stages of these meetings, which are neither the kind of pre-meeting talk identified by previous research on interaction in meetings, nor specifically the business of group supervision itself. This phase, referred to as the ‘check-in’, functions as an interim stage between small talk and getting down to business. The analysis shows how the check-in comprises a highly structured set of linguistic sequences whose production is bound up with one of the key interactional features of group supervision: the collaborative orientation to the production and relevance of ‘feelings-talk’.
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Discourse Studies, 2018, pp 1-15Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/Department of SociologyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)