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- Title
A Goffmanian Analysis of (In)attentiveness as Involvement in Group Therapy Sessions.
- Authors
Becker, JenniferA. H.
- Abstract
This ethnographic investigation explores Goffman's concept of involvement in the group therapy sessions of a women's drug and alcohol treatment program (Goffman, 1963). The program counselors attempted to control the situational order such that clients’ main involvement was displaying attentiveness to the group therapy session itself. Clients’ involvements varied in considerable—though often subtle—ways, and they demonstrated understanding of an involvement idiom. “The rules” were observed and enforced to regulate involvement, and clients who were deviant in their involvement received negative sanctions. Thus, this investigation examines how clients displayed (in)attention and (dis)interest within the social occasion and how these displays were recognized, interpreted, and responded to by group members.
- Subjects
GROUP psychotherapy; COMMUNICATION in small groups; THERAPEUTICS; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; COUNSELING; COUNSELORS; ETHNOLOGY; CLIENTS; GOFFMAN, Erving, 1922-1982
- Publication
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 2005, Vol 6, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
1745-9435
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/17459430500262174