Fleischack, Annie; Macleod, Catriona I; Böhmke, Werner

Title: "The man can use that power", "she got courage" and "inimba": discursive resources in counsellors' talk of intimate partner violence: implications for practice
Creator: Fleischack, Annie
Creator: Macleod, Catriona I
Creator: Böhmke, Werner
Date Issued: 2017
Date: 2017
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67498
Identifier: vital:29103
Identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.15270/52-2-550
Description: Publisher version
Description: Given the high rate of intimate partner violence (IPV), understanding how counsellors talk about IPV and their interventions is important. The authors conducted narrative interviews with eight counsellors from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working with IPV. Using narrative-discursive methodology, this qualitative study paid attention to the discursive resources that the participants drew upon. Two broad clusters of discursive resources and one contradictory (‘nurturing femininity’) discourse emerged. The first cluster engenders a sense of helplessness in the face of overwhelming power relations; the second enables the counsellors to foresee positive outcomes for their counselling. Implications for counselling include emphasising enabling discourses, highlighting multiplicities of gender, and wider-scale interventions.
Format: 19 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: SciELO South Africa
Language: English
Relation: Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk
Relation: Fleischack, A., Macleod, C.I., & Bohmke, W. (2017) "The man can use that power", "she got courage" and "inimba": discursive resources in counsellors' talk of intimate partner violence: implications for practice. Social Work , 53(1), 127-144. https://dx.doi.org/10.15270/52-2-550
Relation: Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk volume 53 number 1 127 144 2017 2312-7198
Rights: Copyright held by the authors
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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"The man can use that power", "she got courage" and "inimba": discursive resources in counsellors' talk of intimate partner violence: implications for practice