Shaping Clients' Answers: Departures from neutrality in care-staff interviews with people with a learning disability

Perceptions and expectations of regular support meetings between staff and people with an intellectual disability

“…However, there is a possibility that staff concerns with empowerment may not always be in keeping with people with an ID's wishes and expectations. Past findings have shown that voices of people with an ID are not always properly heard in interactions with support staff (Antaki et al, 2006(Antaki et al, , 2002Bradshaw, 2001). It would be paradoxical if an attempt to foster agency resulted in people's own wishes and needs being overlooked.…”

“…There has been important work using conversational analysis to examine interactions between staff and people with a learning disability (Antaki, Finlay, Sheridan, Jingree, & Walton, 2006;Antaki, Finlay, & Walton, 2007;Antaki, Finlay, Walton, & Pate, 2008;Antaki, Young, & Finlay, 2002;. However, there has been little research where people with ID and staff members are simply asked about how they think about the conversations they have during their regular meetings, including what they want to achieve and what they think is important.…”

'You can't do it ... it's theory rather than practice': staff use of the practice/principle rhetorical device in talk on empowering people with learning disabilities

“…Other studies using a conversation analytic approach, such as, Antaki, (2001), Antaki, Young, and Finlay (2002), Jingree, Finlay, and Antaki (2006) and Rapley and Antaki (1996b), have examined power relations and institutional practice in interactions between service-users and health-care professionals. These have suggested, among other issues, that the goal of empowering service-users often appears to come into conflict with other goals such as upholding the routines, practices and policies of the service.…”

Ethical Issues in the Use of In-Depth Interviews: Literature Review and Discussion

“…Oakley herself characterises the two positions of 'reporter' and 'evangelist' and recommends the former, albeit on the woman' s side. One paper highlights the danger to the study findings of a non-neutral position [75]. Seibold comments that even a feministinspired interview will have issues of power during the conduct of the interview (when she claims that the interviewees had the power in her case) and during the reporting of it (when she claims that she did) [66].…”