Agency displays in stories of drunk driving: Subjectivity, authorship, and reflectivity

Seilonen, Minna-Leena; Wahlström, Jarl; Aaltonen, Jukka

doi:10.1080/09515070.2012.711299

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“…Positioning processes have been the research topic in various therapy, counselling, and rehabilitation contexts (e.g., Etelämäki et al, 2021 ; Kurri & Wahlström, 2007 ; Seilonen & Wahlström, 2016 ; Toivonen, 2019 ), but to the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have focused on positioning processes in the community-based transitional work context. Researchers have been especially interested in “agentless talk” and demonstrated how therapy clients position themselves as not being in control of the described actions (e.g., Seilonen & Wahlström, 2016 ; Seilonen et al, 2012 ; Toivonen et al, 2019 ). In addition, previous studies have demonstrated how over time, therapy interaction gradually shifts clients’ positions from agentless to agentic ones (e.g., Avdi et al, 2015 ; Kurri & Wahlström, 2007 ).…”

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Mental health rehabilitees’ agency construction and promotion in community-based transitional work programme

Niska

Stevanovic

Nevalainen

et al. 2023

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose The integration of mental health rehabilitees into the labour market is an important policy objective everywhere in the world. The international Clubhouse organization is a third-sector actor that offers community-based psychosocial rehabilitation and supports and promotes rehabilitees’ state of acting and exerting power over their lives, including their (re)employment. In this article, we adopt the perspective of discursive psychology and ask how mental health rehabilitees’ agency is constructed and ideally also promoted in the Clubhouse-based Transitional Employment (TE) programme. Methods The data consisted of 26 video-recorded TE meetings in which staff and rehabilitees of one Finnish Clubhouse discussed ways to further their contacts with potential employers. The analysis was informed by discursive psychology, which has been heavily influenced by conversation analysis. Results The analysis demonstrated how rehabilitees adopt agentic positions in respect to TE-related future activities, and how Clubhouse staff promote and encourage but also discourage and invalidate these agentic positionings. The analysis demonstrated the multifaceted nature of agency and agency promotion in the TE programme. Conclusions Although ideally, Clubhouse activities are based on equal opportunities, in everyday interaction practices, the staff exercise significant power over the question whose agency is promoted and validated in the TE programme.

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