Avoiding Providing Solutions

Orienting to the Ideal of Students' Self-Directedness in Counselling Interaction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5965682
AutoresSanna Vehviläinen (0000-0003-3698-2061, University of Helsinki, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen5
Número3
Páginas389-414
Fecha de publicación2003-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14614456030053005
OpenAlexW2150907041
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas34
Referencias citadas16

This article studies how counsellors in careers training respond to students' problematic advice requests. Conversation analysis is used to examine two strategies counsellors employ when students request advice regarding matters that, according to counselling concepts, they should deal with themselves. The counsellors manage this situation in two ways. They may respond to the request but sanction it afterwards - this happens when the counsellor has offered the student a chance to ask questions, and the student uses this opportunity to request advice. Another, more cautious strategy is to withhold advice and shape the interaction into a questioning sequence, after which the advice can be given as a reaction to the student's response. Examples of both strategies are analysed. It is suggested that, by avoiding taking the role of service-provider, the counsellors orient to the aim of the students' self-directedness. This phenomenon is discussed as a characteristic of counselling interaction

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