Dams, barriers and beating yourself up: shame in groupwork for addressing sexual offending

Mullins, Eve; Kirkwood, Steve

doi:10.1080/02650533.2019.1594735

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“…To examine how respect and warmth are interactionally achieved we analysed video recordings of sessions of the Scottish national groupwork programme for addressing sexual offending, ‘Moving Forward: Making Changes’ (MF: MC) using CA (Liddicoat, 2011). Through detailed transcription, capturing what is said and how it is said (Jefferson, 2004), and pursuing the micro-level sequence of talk (Schegloff, 2007), we examined how people made sense of their conversations and what they are doing in their talk, for example, constructing certain identities (Mullins & Kirkwood, 2019a), or navigating expressions of shame (Mullins & Kirkwood, 2019b).…”

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Unpicking social work practice skills: Warmth and respect in practice

Mullins

Kirkwood

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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Warmth and respect are considered essential skills for relationship building in social work. However, these skills are often treated as common sense, and how to be respectful and warm, particularly in challenging situations, remains unclear. Practice guidance is commonly given as a list of generic behaviours or vague directions. Furthermore, it is not clear how being respectful or warm leads to effective relationships. In this article, we applied conversation analysis to examine transcripts of video recordings of 12 sessions of ‘Moving Forward: Making Changes’, the national groupwork programme addressing sexual offending in Scotland, to outline and specify the interactional practices that constitute instances of respect and warmth in social work practice. We found practitioners demonstrated warmth and respect by recognising and acknowledging clients’ accounts and identities in the interaction through subtle discursive practices. These practices include using hedging words and phrases (e.g. sort of, maybe), framing challenges as questions or suggestions rather than declarations, and using therapeutic phrasing (i.e. ‘I’m curious about’, I’m wondering’). As such, we propose the actions of demonstrating respect and warmth are achieved in interaction through the ways practitioners delicately manage issues of epistemic authority, that is, a person’s primary rights to knowledge about themselves, and face, that is, self-presentation. Drawing on the concepts of epistemic authority and face furthers our theoretical and practical understanding of the practice skills of respect and warmth, and their role in building effective working relationships.

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Unpicking social work practice skills: Warmth and respect in practice

Mullins

Kirkwood

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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“…Language is treated as actively constructing social reality and accomplishing social functions (Liddicoat, 2011;McKinlay and McVittie, 2008). Using these methods, we previously demonstrated how desistance narratives are co-constructed in interaction (Mullins and Kirkwood, 2019a) and how expressions of shame are dealt with during the sessions of the MF: MC groupwork programme (Mullins and Kirkwood, 2019b).…”

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From desistance narratives to narratives of rehabilitation: Risk-talk in groupwork for addressing sexual offending

Mullins

Kirkwood

2022

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Risk has become a dominant focus in criminal justice practice. While this can improve the effectiveness of practices for reducing offending, it can also stigmatise and create barriers for those attempting to desist from crime. To explore this apparent dilemma, we applied conversation analysis and discursive psychology to examine risk-talk in 12 video-recorded sessions of a groupwork programme for addressing sexual offending. We found both practitioners and clients oriented to notions of risk in their talk. They drew on risk-talk as a resource to construct narratives that support desistance, emphasising awareness of risks, having control, and gaining hope and agency over the future. However, risk-talk was resisted when it challenged the client’s self-presentation. Building on previous empirical and theoretical work on desistance and criminal justice practice, we found it is possible for people to incorporate aspects of risk into their personal narratives in order to weave a narrative of rehabilitation.

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“…Shame has the potential to garner appeasement, but it does not reduce the negative emotions for the appeaser. Shame is often associated with destructive behavior toward others or toward oneself (Scheff, 2007; Mullins et al , 2019). A beginning sense of shame can soon transform into helpless anger leading to a very corrosive emotional drain appeasement behaviors may influence the decision of the aspiring entrepreneurs toward their decision and motivations (Kirchner et al , 2018).…”

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Choosing jobs over entrepreneurship: how do negative emotions demotivate the aspiring entrepreneurs?

Sharma

Kumar

2022

JEEE

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Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to understand the effect of negative emotions created from social interactions on the aspiring entrepreneurs. The government of India has recently started several entrepreneurship development schemes to promote entrepreneurship among Indian youth, but still, the turnout rate tends to be low in some eastern states. A lot of research has been done about the various motivating factors, but less attention has been paid on the social interactions that create negative emotions. Unless researchers and government focus on the value of these negative emotions as corroders of motivation, it would be hard to accomplish the goals of an entrepreneurship-oriented country. Design/methodology/approach Interviews were conducted with participants of an entrepreneurship development program at the commencement of program and after one year. Findings It was found via the study that social interaction plays a crucial role in determining their motivation toward becoming an entrepreneur. Apart from this feeling of shame, fear, vulnerability, resentment, loneliness and self-doubt are crucial negative emotions that are corroding the chances of entrepreneurship among the Indian youth. Research limitations/implications The sample size was small to conduct a quantitative analysis. If a study could be conducted on a larger scale, it would contribute immensely to the entrepreneurship literature. Social implications It is a strong reminder of how the society can help in promoting entrepreneurship. Originality/value The impact of social interactions on the motivation of budding entrepreneurs has not been studied as per the literature review.

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Dams, barriers and beating yourself up: shame in groupwork for addressing sexual offending

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Unpicking social work practice skills: Warmth and respect in practice

Unpicking social work practice skills: Warmth and respect in practice

From desistance narratives to narratives of rehabilitation: Risk-talk in groupwork for addressing sexual offending

Choosing jobs over entrepreneurship: how do negative emotions demotivate the aspiring entrepreneurs?

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